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Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.
David Brooks / Commentator
Credibility
Plunder
Ruins
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Horace / Poet
Time
Plunder
Years
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Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.
Ezra Heywood /
Names
Plunder
Profit
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The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.
Thomas Dilorenzo / Professor
Running
Government
Plunder
Purpose
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
Richard Francis Burton / Translator
Former
Native
Plunder
Blunder
However
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli / Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Advantage
Class
Community
Plunder
Protection
Tax
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The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
John White Geary /
Filled
Mere
Plunder
Armed
Daily
Occurrence
Roads
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'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.
Pete Laney /
Plunder
Reform
Good Government Good Government
Good Government
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When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
Frederic Bastiat / Economist
Doe
Painful
Plunder
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith / Novelist
Home
Sports
Best Way
Enemy
Plunder
Waiting
Wait
Homes
Meet
Till
Surely
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We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.
Anthony Eden / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Plunder
Should
Succeed
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The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
Mankind
Plunder
Carried
Crimes
Wars
Destroy
Enslave
Governments
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When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
Karl Marx / Philosopher
Ascendancy
Plunder
Position
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Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.
Kim Jong Il / Former Supreme Leader Of North Korea
Aids
Given
Plunder
Robbing
Subjugation
Aid
Imperialist
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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.
Tacitus / Historian
Peace
War
Empires
Plunder
Slaughter
Wilderness
Call
Empire
Steal
Where
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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 / Fiction Writer
Building
Plunder
Years
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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.
Edward Said / Professor
Empires
Plunder
World
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Peace
Government
Hands
International
Plunder
Thieves
Alliance
Deeply
Inserted
Union
Separately
Third
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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 / Economist
Class
Plunder
Taken
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Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
Adam Cohen /
Society
Bankers
Deals
Fund
Good Times
Investment
Managers
Plunder
Demons
Times
Off
Shares
Themselves
Vampires
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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 / Author
Book
Needs
Plunder
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But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
Government
Cases
Oppression
Organized
People
Plunder
Stronger
Government People Will
Government People Nothing
Extreme
Else
Governments
Resist
Systems
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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.
Cole Younger /
Fighting
Honorable
Plunder
Righteous
Understood
Esteemed
Fought
Principle
Soldiers
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I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
Jon Lee Anderson / Biographer
Allowing
Baghdad
Burning
Foundation
House
Plunder
Thinking
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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 / Economist
Anarchy
Desire
Plunder
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We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Society
Corporate
Criminals
Decency
Defined
Determined
Integrity
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Plunder
Resources
Savings
Theft
Tolerate
Build
Does
Public
Nor
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Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.
Narendra Modi / Prime Minister Of India
Admitting
Injustice
Lenient
Plunder
Scared
Afraid
Nation
Deliver
Forgives
Some People
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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
Ta-Nehisi Coates / Writer
Crow
Enslavement
Jim Crow
Plunder
Terrorism
Bump
Communities
In Fact
Jim
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Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Commerce
Contracts
Currency
Devices
Financial
Instruments
Plunder
Everywhere
Appealing
Horses
Recognized
Roads
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Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
Giraldus Cambrensis /
Bent
Defence
Drunkenness
Employed
Furniture
Gluttony
Plunder
Expense
Horses
Minds
Wholly
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Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth.
David Suzuki / Professor
Depriving
Disgusting
Economic
Economic Growth
Growth
Immigration
Immigration Policy
Increase
Plunder
Population
Southern
Support
Future Growth World
Although
Area
Useful
Countries
Largest
Reduced
Second
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An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.
Glenn Greenwald / Journalist
Behavior
Cheat
Class
Degrade
Law
Limits
Plunder
Rule Of Law
Act
Elite
Endlessly
Fortify
Harmed
Imposed
Operate
Responses
Rule
Whether
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The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.
Ambrose Burnside / Former Governor Of Rhode Island
Army
Competent
Discreet
Humanity
Officers
Plunder
Support
Rules
According
Adds
Established
Charge
Dictates
Indiscriminate
Inhabitants
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As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Bankruptcy
Brotherhood
Cutting
Equity
Fees
International
Left
Plunder
President
Reckless
Rich
Again
Drive
Seen
Companies
Cut
Declare
Private
Taking
Themselves
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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 / Economist
Carnage
Cases
Debris
Destruction
Devastated
Leaving
Naked
Plunder
States
Theft
Trails
Treasury
Vapid
Wanton
Worst
Cause
Collapsed
Dictators
Economies
Grand
Horrendous
Problems
Wake
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
Ta-Nehisi Coates / Writer
American History
Exploitation
Good Person
Plunder
Essential
Shake
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