Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling… — Ernest Belfort Bax Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder… — David Gray Copy Share Image
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of… — Frederic Bastiat 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
Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for… — Bill Moyers 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
For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not. — Thomas DiLorenzo 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
“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
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
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
