Looting Quotes

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

  Barack Obama

  Criminals, Politics, Saws

  "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan and John Berman, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Men, Office

  "Charting the Candidates '72" by Ronald Van Doren, 1972.

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• When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

  David Cameron

  Simple, People, Firefighter

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• George Bush doesn't care about black people.

  Kanye West

  Rapper, People, Black

  Chris Wheels, Kanye West (2014). “Understanding Kanye West: The Art of Passion”, p.45, Chris Wheels

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• I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

  David Kay

  World, Around The World

  Dr David Kay's Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, www.globalresearch.ca. January 28, 2004.

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• Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

  George Will

  Political, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Angel, Heaven, Liquor Stores

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Peace, War

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.35, Penguin

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• Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Mind, Wealth

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.181, Penguin

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• They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

  Russel Honore

  Stay Positive, Survival, Alive

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• I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

  Benjamin Watson

  Law, Racism, Mind

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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• I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

  Michael Palin

  People, Want, Somalia

  "Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can't find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, People, Want

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• When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Winning, Men

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• Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

  Guy Debord

  Army, Police, Violence

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.33, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Should, Brown, Happened

  "Billboard Cover: Kendrick Lamar on Ferguson, Leaving Iggy Azalea Alone and Why 'We're in the Last Days'" by Gavin Edwards, edit.billboard.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Doe, Needs

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• [S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, War, Fighting

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• In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

  Louis Althusser

  Philosophy, War, Battle

  Louis Althusser, Gregory Elliott (1990). “Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists & other essays”, Verso Books

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• Who talks about the real human rights violations, those committed by the West? Europeans and North Americans have already butchered hundreds of millions of people, or close to one billion, to be precise. They have been looting, torturing and raping. Even now, they are killing millions directly and tens of millions indirectly.

  Andre Vltchek

  Real, Rights, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, Gun, Giving

  Barack Obama's remarks on Ferguson, Mo. and Iraq at the White House in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, People, Fellow Man

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• Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.

  Ron Paul

  Order, What If, Doubt

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