Plundering Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the… — Sun Tzu
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. — Richard Cobden
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The… — Karl Marx
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their… — Benjamin Franklin
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property… — Benjamin Disraeli
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches,… — Osama bin Laden
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. — Mel Torme
We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we… — Murray Rothbard
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. Itâ€™s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were… — Aaron Swartz
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade? — Saint John Chrysostom
The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital. — Murray Bookchin
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men… — Diodorus Siculus
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. — Fidel Castro
England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal â€“ to… — Dan Smoot
I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been… — William Stafford
Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy,… — Rush Limbaugh
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed,… — Frederick Douglass
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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