Looted Quotes

#1. You travel to lush looted countries. parts of earth laying on their sides. barely breathing. hot with rust, infection, and tourist anemia. you and your camera arrive. start tearing at bodies with your lust. it's harmless. appreciating culture. sharing. honoring clothing. the way certain skin exists.

Nayyirah Waheed

#2. You think looting is bad in Egypt, look at Peru, India, China. I've been told in China there are over a quarter-million archaeological sites, and most have been looted. This is a global problem of massive proportions, and we don't know the scale.

Sarah Parcak

#3. Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They say Modi should not come. This is because those who looted the nation know that after 16th May what is going to happen.

Narendra Modi

#5. For decades, museums in America, Europe, and elsewhere had been buying recently looted objects from a criminal underworld of smugglers and fences, in violation of U.S. and foreign law.

Jason Felch

#6. The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#7. Did Raiders have enemies? Oh God! Of course they did! I read the stories. Maybe they weren't romanticized. Maybe the sea was filled with perils. Maybe he'd looted and pillaged and now it was payback time. And he was out there in nothing but breeches!

Kristen Ashley

#8. The electricity is back on in Baghdad. That is a very climactic moment in any country's liberation, when the lights come back on and you get a good look at what you looted.

Bill Maher

#9. All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Anna Akhmatova

#10. People had huddled back into the old core of the city; and once the suburbs had been looted, they burned. Like Moscow in 1812, acts of God or vandalism: they were no longer wanted, and they burned.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. What has since happened in Tibet is hardly to be believed. More than 1.2 million Tibetans lost their lives and of about six thousand monasteries, temples, and shrines, 99 percent were either looted or totally destroyed. In

Heinrich Harrer

#12. In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Alex Jones

#13. I've looted that poor Hab for everything it could give me, and in return it's kept me alive for a year and a half. It's like the Giving Tree.

Andy Weir

#14. There i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted

Omali Yeshitela

#16. There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.

Alex Shoumatoff

#17. Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.

Maria Mies

#18. Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard - the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money - the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue.

Ayn Rand

#19. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Alberto Manguel

#20. They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

Susan Abulhawa

#21. We can tell from the imagery a tomb was looted from a particular period of time, and we can alert INTERPOL to watch out for antiquities from that time that may be offered for sale.

Sarah Parcak

#22. The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

Eric Clapton

#23. I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.

Michael Jackson

#24. People don't shake a dirty hand particularly when it is empty

M.F. Moonzajer

#25. One Is Never Over-Dressed OR Understand With A Little Black Dress By Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

#26. What is man? Storyteller, mythmaker, and destroyer of the living world. Thinking

Edward O. Wilson

#27. Please don't, above all,
plant me in your heart.

I grow too quick.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#28. I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

Jon Foreman

#29. And what am I? (Adron)
You're kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia)
I have no heart at all. What I have is a mechanical substitute that pumps blood through a broken body, and half the time it malfunctions. (Adron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon