Alone Quote by John Paul Jones

“All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. The British merchant is no exception to…

— Charlotte Brontë

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit around and…

— Ray Stevenson

Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.

— Mary H.K. Choi

In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot…

— Daniel Webster

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

— Will Oldham

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

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

— Cullen Hightower

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a…

— Daniel Defoe

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

— Ray Stevenson

“a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go…

— Jonathan Swift