The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for… — William Booth Copy Share Image
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1)… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
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
Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts -… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“they used to ride around and plunder people’s belongings. Cyaxares and the Medes invited a great many of them to a feast,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder,… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and… — Eugene V. Debs 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
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
The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be… — Germaine Greer 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
In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes… — Frederic Bastiat 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
Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation… — Darlene Zschech Copy Share Image
The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
'Ye have robbed,' said he, 'ye have slaughtered and made an end, Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead: What will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic… — Anselm J. McLaurin Copy Share Image
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Yes, as long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true mission, that it may violate property… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it -- without his consent and without compensation, and whether… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob &… — William Blake 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
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
