Top 35 Quotes About Extortion
#1. I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.
David Boreanaz
#2. And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.
Jan Brewer
#3. for Alinsky, democratic politics is basically a mechanism of legal extortion, justified by appeals to justice and equality. A
Dinesh D'Souza
#4. God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
#5. The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.
Frank Herbert
#6. When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
Grover Cleveland
#7. Yes, I am aware of the enticements required to obtain them," Kang replied with distaste. "I believe the Russians could teach the West a thing or two about capitalistic extortion.
Clive Cussler
#8. FARC, the Colombian rebels who've been funding their revolution against the state with kidnapping, extortion, and drug dealing.
Janet Evanovich
#9. Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can't give in to extortion.
Alexander Lebedev
#10. Mug shot extortion sites turn this sort of thing into a business. Mug shots are public record, but they're not readily available. Owners of mug shot sites acquire the photos in bulk and publish them online, where everybody can find them, then charge individuals to remove their photos from the sites.
Bruce Schneier
#11. Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.
Jay Leno
#12. To count upon his virtue and use it as an instrument of torture, to practice blackmail with the victim's generosity as sole means of extortion, to accept the gift of a man's good will and turn it into a tool for the giver's destruction.
Ayn Rand
#13. Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
Jay Leno
#14. To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering.
Charles Dickens
#15. I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.
John McCain
#16. ...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.
E. Sue Blume
#18. We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!
Jan Brewer
#19. From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was a thing to be cheated, that one could demand the irrational and someone somehow would provide it.
Ayn Rand
#20. From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
Thomas Paine
#21. We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
Rafael Correa
#22. We must teach our people to reject gain from extortion, bribery, unrighteous grafts as something utterly abhorring.
Sunday Adelaja
#23. I couldn't comprehend what we were about to face, but I knew it was my birthright to fight for it.
Nicole Gulla
#24. I want to be in 'Star Wars.' That would be amazing.
Luke Benward
#25. Rights are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.
Stefan Molyneux
#29. There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#30. A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.
Paloma Picasso
#31. Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
Stefan Molyneux
#32. Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use their sexual superiority to gain economic advantages. So who is the extortionist?
David P. Bryden
#33. I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward. I have a sturdy will. I have a big heart. I'm a decent guy. And I have a great gift. It's blunted me to the world in many ways.
James Ellroy
#34. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
Isabel Paterson
#35. Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.
Marty Rubin
