PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the… — William James 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
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
As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators… — Jean-Louis Murat Copy Share Image
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The rulling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old.… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's… — John Adams 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
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion… — Murray Rothbard 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
Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the… — Homer 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
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — 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
Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Rape, pillage, plunder, gouge, extort, and beat... your imagination. ” — Scott F. Falkner Copy Share Image
“that sweet, unlimited democratic system, allowing plunder at the drop of a vote.” — S.W. Southwick Copy Share Image
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