Plunders Quotes

#1. Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! However, it is a moral problem: you will not fly, learns one with our children. Moreover, these plunders via the Net are carried out in the anonymat.

Jean-Louis Murat

#2. The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings.

Edward Gibbon

#3. Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and people are driven to abominable acts to satisfy their lust. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense.

Radhanath Swami

#4. This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Frederic Bastiat

#5. It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

Austin O'Malley

#6. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. It's when a society plunders its ability to look over the horizon and into the future in order to get short-term gain - sometimes illusory gain - that it begins a long slide nearly impossible to reverse.

Neal Stephenson

#10. 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

#11. Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Pietro Aretino

#12. Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Alfie Kohn

#13. - " Are you ready for this ? "
- " What?"
- " Commitment"
- " You make it easy

Kasie West

#14. Giving our children rest means being their safe harbor, their place to retreat when life hurts and the world looms large and people disappoint and mistakes are made. Becoming that safe harbor means being free ~ freely available, freely offered, freely welcoming.

L.R. Knost

#15. Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

Herbert Hoover

#16. The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

Naum Gabo

#17. Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.

Joan Rivers

#18. Being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension ... without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!

Eugen Herrigel

#19. What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Daniel Keys Moran

#20. If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.

Tom Krause

#21. 'Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well.

Lenny Abrahamson

#22. Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?

Fred Small

#24. to live well you must live
unseen

Rene Descartes

#25. Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.

Rudolf Hess

#26. On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he has no intention of ever leaving it again.

Paul Auster