Long Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of…

— Anonymous

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

— Will Oldham

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes…

— Will Oldham

Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.

— Mary H.K. Choi

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers:…

— John Paul Jones

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

— Ray Stevenson

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

— Anonymous

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

— Will Oldham

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

— Louis L'Amour

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

— Vincente Minnelli

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and…

— Peter Middlebrook