Pillage Quotes

#1. The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

Frank Herbert

#2. Let the corporations do as they please
pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets
and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

Lewis H. Lapham

#3. Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

Henry Van Dyke

#4. If all else fails, pillage the fridge.

Rene Gutteridge

#5. A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.

Nostradamus

#6. They were known to pillage and plumage leaving few survivors

Maia Starr

#7. Go pillage the pretty pink birds, Sparrow. Before they come back to life and peck our eyes out.

Anonymous

#8. This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying ... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice ... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks ... but nobody loved it.

Alfred Bester

#9. We had allowed ourselves to become distracted on the way to the Crusade, never laid eyes on a Turk, turned to pillage and rapine among the Hungarians and Greeks in order to reach the East ... all for the glory of God, of course, until defeated,

H.P. Lovecraft

#10. How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!

William Shakespeare

#11. Toshaway had been right: you had to love others more than you loved your own body, otherwise you would be destroyed, whether from the inside or out, it didn't matter. You could butcher and pillage but as long as you did it for people you loved, it never mattered.

Philipp Meyer

#12. This wretched body, the chain and prison of the soul, is tossed hither and thither; upon it punishment and pillage and disease wreak havoc: but the soul itself is holy and eternal, and it cannot be assailed with violence.

Seneca.

#13. Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

Barbara Amiel

#14. I'm here to rape, and pillage, and run off with all of your spoons.

Steven Scott Williamson

#15. Mankind is a plague. Look at you. You rape and pillage, you suck the Earth dry and kill all your kindred. What species has prospered under man's dominion?

Sarwat Chadda

#16. To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Albert Camus

#17. Put a petty criminal in maximum security prison and he'll come out knowing how to rape and pillage.

Michelle Hodkin

#18. Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Elbert Hubbard

#19. Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

Janet Morris

#20. [Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

Terry Pratchett

#21. The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

Michel De Montaigne

#22. I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day ... JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174

J.R.R. Tolkien

#23. I'm not a thief.' Snorri lowered his brows. 'All right, we'll call it pillage,

Mark Lawrence

#24. My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts ... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.

Bruce Vilanch

#25. We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

Richard Jackson

#26. War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Marianne Moore

#27. The older generation of Vikings no doubt complained that the younger generation were getting soft and did not rape and pillage with the same dedication as in years gone by.

C. Peter Herman

#28. I'm bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

Kristin Cashore

#29. The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

Emily Dickinson

#30. Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

Robert Wright

#31. It takes a pillage.

Nomi Prins

#32. They still refuse to spare the ocean of the pillage even in the night. You humans are truly persistent when self-interests are involved.

Shaine Lake

#33. How do you choose between your kids and your parents? I feel like we're all just a bunch of vikings, moving around so we can pillage and burn, make a better living.
Some choose their kids, some their parents, and some both. Some people just choose themselves,

Joe Coomer

#34. We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

James Russell Lowell

#35. Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Phyllis Logan

#36. You'll see me differently in the morning, after I've fucked some sense into you.

Virginia Wade

#37. What are you up to?"
"I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

Obert Skye