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

Needs Doe War Country Peace Anti War Antiwar Peace War Great War Make Peace Not War Peace Not War Free Country Looting

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

Men Giving Made Ends Government Political Lying Groups Special Talent Like You Promise Ten Office Election Nine Devices Goods Principal Stolen Gang Brokers Auctions Looting Special Talents

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.”

Church Music Rocks Expression Music Is Contemporary Streams Rock N Roll Obscene Looting Rock N Roll Music Church Music

Author:Ralph Ellison

“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”

Ifs States Order Three Doubt Violence Picks Paid Checks Welfare No Doubt What If Welfare State Looting Paid Off Rioting

Author:Ron Paul

“They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.”

Alive Survival Stores Stay Positive Staying Alive Right Words Looting

Author:Russel Honore

“Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.”

Ifs Enough Turns Heaven Band Angel Ugly Convinced Stores Gates Liquor Unemployed Hanging Around Looting Liquor Stores Pearly Gates

Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.”

Men Mind Force Wealth Capitalism Trade Productions Looting

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.”

States Natural Violence Army Police Response Abundance Commodity Monopoly Detachment Unnatural Inhuman Looting

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can't find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?”

People Want Should Wells Helping Government Waste Libertarian Productive Good People Taxpayers Private Sector Looting

Author:Murray Rothbard

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...”

“What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.”

Should Happened Brown Looting

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.”

Men Self Religious Rich Sacred Stealing Theft Looting

Book:Do it; scenarios of the revolution

Source: Do it; scenarios of the revolution

“I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.”

World Around The World Looting

Author:David Kay