Plunder Quotes
100 quotes by 73 authors
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service…
— Frederic Bastiat
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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates…
— Frantz Fanon
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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot…
— Ernest Belfort Bax
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It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of…
— Frederic Bastiat
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No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this…
— Frederic Bastiat
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This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder…
— Frederic Bastiat
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There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.
— Frederic Bastiat
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That…
— Eugene V. Debs
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On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the…
— Sun Tzu
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The rulling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it…
— Osama bin Laden
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Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
— Frederic Bastiat
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We are to Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven for Calvary's sake
— Reinhard Bonnke
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The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make…
— Frederic Bastiat
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