Nick Clegg

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

British Politician

Glenn Greenwald

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

American Journalist

David Suzuki

Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth.

Canadian Scientist

Steven Pinker

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Irish Poet

John McDonnell

Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

British Statesman

Henry IV

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.

Royalty

Frederic Bastiat

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

French Economist

Plunder involves force or aggression, often seen in warlike situations or historical conflicts.

War Context

Plundering implies some element of violence or coercion, not just quiet theft.

Violence Involved

Plunder refers to a larger scale of theft, not to minor acts like shoplifting.

Not Petty Crime

Plunder as a noun highlights the illegitimate acquisition of items, usually by force.

Unlawful Gain

Use 'plunder' for items that clearly belonged to someone else before being taken.

Implies Ownership

Plunder often refers to historical instances of looting, associated with piracy or conquests.

Historical Usage

Plunder as a verb highlights the aggressive exploitation or depletion of resources.

Exploitation Theme

Plunder suggests quick and extensive taking, leaving little to nothing behind.

Rapid Depletion

Use plunder for large quantities or valuable assets, not for petty theft.

Large-scale Theft

 The advantages derived from peace diffuse themselves far and wide, and reach great numbers, while in war, if anything turns out happily, the advantage redounds only to a few, and those unworthy of reaping it. One man's safety is owing to the destruction of another. One man's prize is derived from the plunder of another.

Steven Pinker and...

 time as blackbeard and bonnie plundered chips sometimes disguised as a man and it's just kind of a spread of them with a little poem that i wrote that kind of sums it up oh that is so cool yeah it's great of marauding men at the many books have told the tale but of all the pirates and all the world the most

Queens of the High Seas...

 and Chinese dynasties rose and fell. Even Mongolian hoards, known for pillage and plunder, actively protected the trade routes, rather than disrupting them. But along with commodities, these routes also enabled the movement of traditions, innovations, ideologies and languages.

The Silk Road:...

 and vice versa the foam is the result of these strong offshore winds that whip the biomass of phytoplankton into a froth consider it something like marine egg whites like other major fisheries the Benguela current marine life has been plundered involved life populations

Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...

 the fortifications lost their purpose. And without regular reinforcement, the wall fell into disrepair, rammed earth eroded, while brick and stone were plundered for building materials. But its job wasn't finished. During World War II,

What makes the Great...

 The empire commanded vast fleets of Viking-style long ships, which they used for trading, raiding, and plundering the seas. Observing this prowess, many neighboring rulers sought their aid.

The rise and fall of the...

 urban and congested yet also silent and wild whilst plundering the seas they brought back cranes from the verge of extinction and preserved whole islands like this one for wildlife

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 concentration camps near Munich when World War two ended the grotesque realities of Nazi war crimes were exposed and proof of systematic plunder and