Plunder Quotes

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It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. — Benjamin Disraeli
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit… — Eric Wolf
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but… — Edward Said
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder,… — Richard Ebeling
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. — Thomas Paine
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D… — Ambrose Bierce
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high. — Aristophanes
Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. — John Foster Dulles
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given. — Kim Jong Il
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no… — William Booth
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections… — Thomas DiLorenzo
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave… — Han Suyin
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate. — Jimmy Buffett
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree… — Thomas Jefferson
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is… — Frederic Bastiat
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,… — Charles Caleb Colton
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton

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