Plundered Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
— Frederic Bastiat
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to…
— Nick Clegg
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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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With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
— Peter Weiss
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the…
— Robert Higgs
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Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them…
— Martin Luther
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COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum of such musics, from La…
— John Balance
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support…
— Ayn Rand
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...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.
— Russell Kirk
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Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees .…
— Hilda Doolittle
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
— Paddy Chayefsky
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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
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If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he…
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like…
— Evo Morales
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There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and…
— John Irving
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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a…
— Alberto Manguel
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if…
— Tacitus
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...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over…
— Naomi Wolf
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There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered…
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who Wrote These Plundered Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Plundered Quotes as follows: