Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder. — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“You'll see me differently in the morning, after I've fucked some sense into you.” — Virginia Wade Copy Share Image
Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. — John White Geary Copy Share Image
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The system of plunder derives much of its support from individuals who do not subscribe to socialism but who say, 'We're paying… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“Greed is a snarling monster with a set of razor-sharp teeth on both sides of its head. It devours not only those… — Chris Seay Copy Share Image
The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask… — Sharon Waxman Copy Share Image
In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“The conquering troops plundered the wealthy capital, and found the booty so abundant “that every private man in the allied army became… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“And the plunder was not just of Prince alone. Think of all the love poured into him. Think of the tuitions for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes —… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
