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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Edward Said
Empires, World, Plunder

And this is what has taken place. 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
Taken, Class, Plunder
Frederic Bastiat (2017). “The Law”, p.15, Lulu.com

We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.

Anthony Eden
Succeed, Should, Plunder
"The Suez Crisis" by Anthony Gorst and Lewis Johnman, Routledge, (p. 70), 2013.

On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.

Murray Rothbard
Desire, Anarchy, Plunder
Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1363, Ludwig von Mises Institute

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

Jerry Pournelle
Years, Building, Plunder

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

Frederic Bastiat
Doe, Painful, Plunder
Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

Karl Marx
Plunder, Position, Ascendancy
Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Horace
Time, Years, Plunder
Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

Ezra Heywood
Names, Plunder, Profit

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

David Brooks
Ruins, Plunder, Credibility
"Shields and Brooks on high stakes for debate moderators, a dead heat in the polls". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 9, 2016.

Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard—

Gena Showalter
Book, Needs, Plunder
Gena Showalter (2012). “Twice as Hot”, p.18, Harlequin

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