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“P IRACY , n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
— Steve Jobs, at a retreat in September 1982, as quoted in John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple – A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987), p. 157
“When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.”
— George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (1999), Davos (I)
“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), p. 997
“[The United States] has gone to the extent of carrying out modern acts of piracy, stopping ships in the middle of the ocean and stealing cargo that was paid for by the Venezuelan people.”
— Arreaza, quoted by Vijay Prashad in Why Imperialism is Obsolete in Latin America, An interview with Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela, CounterPunch, Nov 27, 2020
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
— Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1875)

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