Pillage Quotes

27 quotes by 25 authors

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows. — Albert Camus
Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage. — Robert Wright
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business… — H. L. Mencken
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to… — Walter E. Williams
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore
Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage.… — Janet Morris
To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream… — Dominique Venner
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune… — Alfred Bester
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. — James Russell Lowell
When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference… — Wendell Berry
The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or… — Michel de Montaigne
Government is a kind of legalized pillage. — Elbert Hubbard
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his… — Susan B. Anthony
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett
Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding.… — Deb Caletti
Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there… — David Eddings
Iâ€™m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden. — Kristin Cashore
I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life… — Barbara Amiel
To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience. — Eli Khamarov

Who Wrote These Pillage Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 27 Pillage Quotes as follows: