70 Extortion Quotes to Help You Understand and Counteract Manipulation
Ever wondered how a negative concept like extortion could yield a treasure trove of inspiration? Well, extortion quotes are here to challenge your perceptions! These quotes, though rooted in a negative realm, can positively influence your mindset, pushing you to rise above such lowly actions. They serve as a mirror, reflecting the harsh realities of life, and encouraging us to be better, to act better.
Famous Extortion Quotes
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends? — Bill Watterson
blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing. — Ursula Curtiss
Blackmail is more effective than bribery. — John Le Carre
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. — Alberto Fujimori
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. — Lysander Spooner
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. — Calvin Coolidge
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons — Robert Anton Wilson
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. — Benjamin Tucker
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson
After all, kidnappers are just businessmen trying to get the best price. — Chris Voss
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. — Terry Pratchett
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner — H. L. Mencken
That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation. — Alan Paton
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. — Ambrose Bierce
Short Extortion Quotes
- Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day! — Jay Leno
- Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever. — Tupac Shakur
- Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The villain's censure is extorted praise. — Alexander Pope
- The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives. — Susan Rice
- Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force. — Adam Smith
- For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. — Barbara Tuchman
- Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion. — Alexander Lebedev
- Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others. — Tryon Edwards
- Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. — John Galt
People Writing About Extortion
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Thomas Jefferson |
1788 | 19141 |
 Bill Watterson |
333 | 2988 |
 John Le Carre |
155 | 560 |
 Alberto Fujimori |
10 | 73 |
 Lysander Spooner |
104 | 539 |
 Calvin Coolidge |
312 | 3370 |
More Extortion Quotes
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! — Sayings
Those who want to use violence or extortion to obstruct change are going to find a president of immovable convictions who uses all the levers of the state to advance the changes that the country needs. — Javier Milei
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? — Thomas Paine
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others. — Ayn Rand
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
Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day. — Jay Leno
Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides. — Robert O. Paxton
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion? — Isabel Paterson
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — H. L. Mencken
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth. — Michael Parenti
But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them. — Martin Luther
The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals. — Frank Zappa
Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted. — Trey Gowdy
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
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them. — John Stuart Mill
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
I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally. — Michael Biehn
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty. — Tibor R. Machan
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. — John Dryden
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. — James Goldsmith
The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter. — Hunter S. Thompson
He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous. — Jill Stein
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better. — William Shakespeare
In the midst of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Putin invaded the Republic of Georgia. Let's call it for what it is. Here is Vladimir Putin with a failing Soviet franchise. And when he can't win the hearts and minds of his neighboring nations, he uses energy extortion, masked gunmen and barbed wire. — Kelly Ayotte
Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common. — Donald Trump
For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery. — Juan Manuel Santos
These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation. — Bathsua Makin
It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities. — Charlie Sheen
Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense. — Elihu Burritt
Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone. — Sally Stanford
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day. — Freya Stark
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world. — William Cowper
In Conclusion
Why should you read extortion quotes? These quotes are not just sentences; they are life lessons, teaching us about morality, integrity, and the importance of standing up against the wrong. They empower us to make positive changes in our lives and society. As you delve into these quotes, you'll find a newfound strength and determination to combat the forces of extortion. Indeed, the power of words is such that even the dark theme of extortion can inspire light and positivity in us.
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