#plunder

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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


#despised #fears #former #his #latter

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.


Benjamin Disraeli


#class #community #plunder #protection #tax

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.


Jon Lee Anderson


#bad #baghdad #built #burning #coming

... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino.


John-Talmage Mathis


#casino #gambling #gaming #i-deal-to-plunder #louisiana

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.


John White Geary


#daily #filled #mere #occurrence #plunder

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.


Paddy Chayefsky


#british #enlightenment #half #off #own

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.


Ambrose Bierce


#cannot #deeply #each #hands #inserted

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.


Evo Morales


#always #bolivia #came #city #culturally