Quotes About Plunder

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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Marathas, Jats and Gujars who robbed and killed any man they could lay their hands on and raped any woman who fell into their clutches. It took me five days to reach Agra. By then Nadir's horde was busy pillaging and looting Delhi. I said to myself: 'No matter a city can be rebuilt and repopulated but no power on earth can put together a heart that has been shattered.' Agra was the city of my heart's ruination. I

Today, the peoples of newly-emerging countries are struggling against the US and other imperialists' policy of aggression and plunder, in defense of their national sovereignty and natural resources, and in order to put an end to the old economic order by which few capitalist powers have exploited and plundered at will the majority of the countries and people's throughout the world, and to establish a new fair world economic order.

We have not yet learned the difference between yield and loot.

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

his army to plunder, and sold the entire population for slaves.

To the victors belong the spoils.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Those who are creating the riots are not in tune with their religion. They want to plunder and destroy. Don't you know why the sweet shops get ravaged? People hanker after sweets. And gold shops too, because of greed for gold. It's the criminals and hoodlums who are on this spree of loot and plunder. There's really no conflict between the communities.

Come along with us .… we will get all sorts of plunder .… throw in your lot with us … we will share a common purse … " What is the pitch to the young person in Proverbs 1? It is belonging. The attraction of giving in to the wicked is camaraderie. The appeal is to a very human need to share mutuality with others. Your kids need to belong.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

It's when a society plunders its ability to look over the horizon and into the future in order to get short-term gain—sometimes illusory gain—that it begins a long slide nearly impossible to reverse.

there was an orgy of vandalism and looting

El príncipe que, con sus ejércitos, va a efectuar saqueos y a llenarse de botín, y a apoderarse de los caudales de los vencidos, está obligado a ser pródigo con sus soldados, que no le seguirían sin ese estímulo.

Ce qui est certain, c'est que, d'ordinaire, après les vainqueurs viennent les voleurs. Mais mettons le soldat, surtout le soldat contemporain, hors de cause.

the greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions. To see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed

Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere.

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.

Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women

Oddly, none of the chroniclers who describe this 'sack of Rome' seem at all interested in the fact that what was being taken had actually been brought to the city as loot in the first place. And whereas the Romans had destroyed the places from which they took their plunder, not a single building in Rome was destroyed by the Vandals.

Robbers of the world; having exhausted the land by their universal plunder, they rifle the deep. If their enemy is rich, they are rapacious; if he is poor, they lust for power; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. Robbery, slaughter and plunder they misname 'empire'; they make a wilderness and call it peace.45