Quotes About Extortion

The extortion nightly have been partly excused if the taxes were being returned to the cultivators in the form of public goods or services, but the taxes were sent off to the British government in London.

Het zou zijn verdiende loon zijn als iemand hem eens doodslaat of -steekt. Misschien zal hij dan eindelijk eens ophouden met onschuldige voorbijgangers geld af te persen. - Halt

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

It's not a normal thing to receive a ransom demand in your inbox. I felt physically sick.

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

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.

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.

You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value—you have now established an unselfish society where they trade extortion for extortion. Your system is a legal civil war, where men gang up on one another and struggle for possession of the law, which they use as a club over rivals, till another gang wrests it from their clutch and clubs them with it in their turn, all of them clamoring protestations of service to an unnamed public's unspecified good.

I was able to convince them that the Starling case is not, essentially, about extortion, kidnapping, decapitation or murder. It is about postage stamps.' 'Postage stamps?' 'More particularly about the forgery of rare postage stamps, which is fraud, our bailiwick.

I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force

Qué policía había que nos defendiera a nosotros cuando nos iban a matar? De haber habido, nos habrían detenido para extorsionarnos.Pero no, andaban extorsionando en el centro.

That's extortion," Cerrone said. "No, asshole, that's justice.

militant Fascism was a natural ally of extortion.

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.

SPECTRE Ã¢â'¬â€œ The Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Some people from my past coming to extort me, put me in crazy situations, trying to take food out of my family's mouth and just a lot of outside circumstances.

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.

Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.

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.

El control llega a ser tan efectivo que Servando Gómez, La Tuta, puede hacer una asamblea de presidentes municipales para no tener que hablar uno por uno con ellos. Les dice que todos deben pagar "diezmo", es decir, un porcentaje fijo de la nómina municipal y otro tanto del destinado a obras públicas.

FARC, the Colombian rebels who've been funding their revolution against the state with kidnapping, extortion, and drug dealing.

After all, a great number of history's spies had undoubtedly begun as the unfortunate victims of set-ups and extortion, but the faultless roots of their errors did not matter much to the firing squad.

There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and prospecting. Most of the greatest fortunes have probably involved several of these.