Plunder Quotes
100 quotes by 72 authors
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Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because…
— Gena Showalter
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It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and…
— Ayn Rand
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The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect,…
— Pietro Aretino
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
— Horace
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How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by…
— Muhammad Ali
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The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.
— Glenn Beck
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Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this…
— Steven Pinker
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The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
— Lysander Spooner
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An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
— Richard Francis Burton
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The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
— John White Geary
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I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they…
— Cole Younger
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Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence…
— Giraldus Cambrensis
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MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in Society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal…
— Frederic Bastiat
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We pillage, we plunder we rifle and loot, we kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. We extort, we pilfer we filch and sack,…
— Pirates Of The Carribean
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Brandon McCaw did a story based on like Latin literature, Roman art assumed its distinctive character during the principle. Before this time, most artworks displayed…
— Brandon McCaw
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'Ye have robbed,' said he, 'ye have slaughtered and made an end, Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead: What will ye more of…
— Unknown Author
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