Life Quote by Chrystia Freeland

“The dictator has to keep the economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it.”

— Tim Harford

“Even dictators become dictators because somehow, deep in their hearts, they believe they've been chosen to save the world. Everyone is chosen. There lies…

— Eric Gamalinda

“We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them--…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Why spend money and blood to invade a country and plunder its treasure when you can just buy it from them at less expense…

— Steven Pinker

“I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect…

— John Maynard Keynes

“There were people who’d steal money from people. Fair enough. That was just theft. But there were people who, with one easy word, would…

— Terry Pratchett

“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.”

— George W. Bush

“the poor don’t have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal…

— Gary A. Haugen

“Money was what you stuffed into the greedy spokes of the world as bribery, so it wouldn't run you over.”

— Elyse Singleton

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

— Charlie Chaplin

“People were strange like that. Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government…

— Terry Pratchett