Despoil Quotes

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. - William Orville Douglas

To drill in a way that will not despoil the beauty, and we think that can be done. - Pete Domenici

The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes. - Queen Liliuokalani Of Hawaii

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. - Elihu Root

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men. - Henry Louis Mencken