Looting Quotes - Page 2

• All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

  Jerry Rubin

  Religious, Men, Self

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  Kanye West

  Song, White, Black

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• One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Fellow Man, Path

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• In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan - because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks.

  Steve Sailer

  New Orleans, Japan, Earthquakes

  "Racial Reality And The New Orleans Nightmare". www.vdare.com. September 03, 2005.

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• Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

  Melina Marchetta

  Cousin, Sheep, Bed

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• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Order, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.197, Penguin

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• The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

  George Will

  Needs, Ethics, Election

  "Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy". Book by George Will, Simon & Schuster, Chapter 1, p. 31, 1992.

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• Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.

  Amanda Ripley

  Government, Panic, Emergencies

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.

  Ron Paul

  War, Mean, Government

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• Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked.

  Deb Caletti

  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Government

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

  Sasha Grey

  People, Choices, Natural

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• Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Broken, Leaving

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• Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

  Ralph Ellison

  Music, Rocks, Expression

  "Some Questions and Some Answers", 1958.

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• George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

  Kanye West

  Song, Army, White

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