Quotes About Plunder

Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.

My life means their death. My death means their life. And life for them means more crime, more plunder, unlimited booty.

And instead of their advanced state in science being attributable to a superior development of intellectual faculties,…it is solely owing to…their innate thirst for blood and plunder.

One Jewish critic of the "Holocaust-themed dinner" conjured this scenario: "Mass murder. Horrible plunder. Slave labor. Let's eat.")

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. … And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Así es la vida. Los saqueadores acaban siendo saqueados, y el tiempo nos hace mercenarios a todos.

The Swedes captured 5,000 new uniforms, broke into monasteries, held the monks to ransom, and opened the crypts to steal rings from the corpses. They took even more from the living, including 10,000 books which they sent to quench Queen Christina's thirst for knowledge.

They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”

And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,

Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.

And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.