Quotes of Extortion - somelinesforyou

“ Heck, what's a little extortion among friends? ”

- Bill Watterson

“ 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

“ Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons. ”

- George W. Bush

“ This will only make us more determined to pursue terrorism and dig it out by the roots... We will not give in to its blackmail, or seek a truce. ”

- Hosni Mubarak

“ Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. ”

- Benito Mussolini

“ In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery. ”

- Sallust

“ Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ There is gold for you. Sell me your good report. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. ”

- Demosthenes

“ But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ”

- Sextus Propertius

“ There is a pale shade of bribery which is sometimes called prosperity. ”

- George Eliot
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