Bandits Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Remove justice and what are states but gangs of bandits on a large scale? And what are bandit gangs but kingdoms in miniature?”

— St. Augustine

“No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us...”

— Joseph Conrad

“And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale? What is war but…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“The way I see it, all governments are just a different flavour of bastard.”

— Mike Brooks

“Governments will ultimately have little choice but to treat populations in territories they serve more like customers, and less in the easy that organized…

— James Dale Davidson

“I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency.”

— John le Carré

“But history tells us that monopolies that are truly benevolent and effective are rare.”

— Michael E. Porter

“I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land.”

— R.L. Bartram

“Sometimes when a person sees the roguery of poor people and the thievery of people in high positions, he is tempted to regard society…

— Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort

“It's about time that governments feared the people instead of the other way around.”

— Henry Rollins

“such banditti who might for half the sum that is paid them be exterminated from the Earth.”

— Michael B. Oren

“Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova