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Quotes About Plunder

Korsan olman?n en güzel yan?, dedi gutlu korsan, yaÄŸmac?l?kt?r.
~ Gideon Defoe
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.
~ George Ayittey
Ç?lg?nl?k ölçüsünde pazarlanmakta olan bir ülke. BaÅŸkalar?n?n ç?karlar? için kullan?lm?? ve ÅŸaÅŸk?n. Åžimdi de, vatandaÅŸlar?n?n aymazl?kla faÅŸist yaÄŸmalara yeniliÅŸlerine görgü tan?kl??? ederken s?k s?k kar??la??lan ÅŸoke olma ve dehÅŸete kap?lma durumlar?.
~ Sean Penn
swis bank & banks like this must be done away with to put an end to plundering of poor nations. the account holders should be hanged.
~ Self
El estatismo necesita la guerra; un país libre no. El estatismo sobrevive a través del saqueo; un país libre sobrevive produciendo.
~ Ayn Rand
If the pirate articles were clear about anything, it was that the act of dividing up the booty was as close to a sacrament as anything else in the code.
~ Steven Johnson
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
~ Joseph Heller
stuff, brocade, and valuable carpeting, piled upon one another; gold and silver ingots in great heaps, and money in bags. The sight of all these riches made him suppose that this cave must have been occupied for ages by robbers, who had succeeded one another. Ali Baba went boldly into the cave, and collected as much of the gold coin, which
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
Come, friends, who plow the sea,Truce to navigation,Take another station;Let's vary piraceeWith a little burglaree.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
I gazed at the far woods and knew our enemies were also sharpening their blades. They had to be confident. They knew the dawn would bring them a battle, victory, plunder, and reputation.
~ Bernard Cornwell
French desecrated the cathedral. They plundered the treasury and tore down most of the screens.
~ Bernard Cornwell
the French had torn away the silverwork, wrenched down the statues, and ripped the triptychs from their frames.
~ Bernard Cornwell
15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
~ Sun Tzu
Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single PICUL of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
~ Sun Tzu
Soldiers, I am sorry to say, steal everything." He thought for a moment and then added, "Or at least ours do." How
~ Susanna Clarke
Prince Nicholas wrote: ' If your house is broken into and plundered and finally set on fire by persons whom you considered to be your best friends, have the latter any right to call you a 'traitor' because, in despair, you opened your window and screamed for help?
~ Julia P. Gelardi
But what do the socialists do? They cleverly disguise this legal plunder from others -- and even from themselves -- under the seductive names of fraternity, unity, organization, and association. Because we ask so little from the law -- only justice -- the socialists thereby assume that we reject fraternity, unity, organization, and association.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense...When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
~ Frederic Bastiat
When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it -- without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud -- to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Yes, as long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true mission, that it may violate property instead of securing it, everybody will be wanting to manufacture law, either to defend himself against plunder, or to organize it for his own profit.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Now, legal plunder may be exercised in an infinite multitude of ways. Hence come an infinite multitude of plans for organization; tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, free public education, right to work, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labor, gratuity of credit, etc., etc. And it is all these plans, taken as a whole, with what they have in common, legal plunder, that takes the name of socialism.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.
~ Frederic Bastiat
legal plunder may be exercised in an infinite multitude of ways. Hence come an infinite multitude of plans for organization; tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, free public education, right to work, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labor, gratuity of credit, etc., etc. And it is all these plans, taken as a whole, with what they have in common, legal plunder, that takes the name of socialism.
~ Frederic Bastiat