Quotes with pillage

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

  Marianne Moore
  American poet (1887 - 1972)
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• 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
  British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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• Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  A Carnival of Buncombe

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• 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
  American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• dictatorships
• transmuted
• harassment
• government
• collection
• t-shirts

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