Quotes about Looting

Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.

Behind the shutters, our friends of yesterday were probably waiting for the moment when they could loot our homes.