Pillage Quotes

“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.”
― Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“You'll see me differently in the morning, after I've fucked some sense into you.”
― Virginia Wade, Cum For The Viking 1

“What are you up to?"
"I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.”
― Obert Skye, Choke

“You have probably never seen the pillage of a town, people around you hacked to pieces, or else you would not speak with such indifference towards your country.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“And he said...

...man may pillage the earth, but he in turn will be interred by the earth.”
― Anthony T. Hincks