Looting Quotations

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

'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

We're mindful that looting is a possibility and we have the resources if we need to deal with it.

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

What's sad about it is that, considering the destruction in the country, with looting and so on, we needed every dollar for reconstruction.

Looting from the people is not a new thing; we are used to that. But for people who claim to be representatives of their own people to commit this bare-faced robbery is shameful. Where is the rule of law?

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.

I was shocked and appalled by the harrowing accounts of the Chechen civilians, ... I listened to testimony of summary executions, intimidation, looting by military personnel, disproportionate use of force, attacks on civilians' convoys, rape and other violations.

If we don't get gasoline to keep our water system running, then we're going to ask people to leave town, ... Our critical need is gas. We've had three incidents of looting because we can't patrol like we need to because there's no gasoline for our police cars.

If this is true, we condemn it and we urge that the looting of food aid cease immediately.

Chinatown is basically burned down, there are only a couple of shops left standing. Right up to this morning looting is still continuing.

Frankly, when you prey upon the fears, the paranoia of citizens, it is akin to looting in a different sort of way,

From the evidence that has emerged, there is a strong case to be made that the looting and theft of the artifacts was perpetrated by organized criminal groups,

We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.

HMOs and insurers pumping up their coffers at the detriment to seniors is a blight on the Medicare prescription drug benefit and is the last straw of their looting and pillaging of health care.

People are going into survivor mode. They are calling it looting and I'm saying it's surviving,

Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.

Overall the security situation in Mazar remains somewhat unstable. As of this morning, we heard reports that along with occasional looting there is also 'punitive action' that is being carried out. We have also heard that fighting is continuing in and around the city.

Overall, there have been at least 10 serious attacks on humanitarian workers in the past 30 days - for the purpose of looting - particularly in West Darfur. The situation in South Darfur is not better.

My roommate went out after the storm and he did a little looting himself for water and food for the dog. That's the last I heard of him. I still haven't found him yet. That worries me because he would call me.

You are going into the unknown. You never know who is under the bed and who is around the corner, ... And due to the fact that we are having looting in the area ... and the looters have been using weapons against the police down here, we need to do this.

We have had some looting but we are not taking reports unless essential,

those dastardly, conniving, post-hurricane looting criminals. Is there no end to their planning abilities?!

We're trying not to get caught up in the madness -- the violence, the looting and fires.

Thomas Smith Woewiyu and his boss, Charles Taylor, are very busy trying to get somebody elected who will then welcome them into Government to complete their looting agenda.

While guys are doing repairs in one location, another part of the crew is looting another location in the city.

We showed ourselves to be good neighbors during the tragedy of four years ago, ... There was no act of looting at all. This time it is very important for good neighbors to be good neighbors.

To me looting is about the equivalent of grave robbing, ... We're not going to stand for it.

either in a place where looting occurred or involved in looting.

Electricity generation still around 25 percent below war levels, and transmission undermined by looting and sabotage,

There was a concern that looting would increase at nighttime, ... We had a report of a bank burglary Sunday morning in East Texas, and there were some reports of localized looting.

The term looting is not stated in the policy.

That village was found to be completely deserted. Inside the houses, the bedding the household material were strewn all over the floors, signs of looting and hasty departures.

You're seeing law enforcement falling apart and a modern, industrialized city brought to a complete breakdown, and these stories about the looting and the sniper fire are very much playing into this.

They secured our houses from the minute it happened. There was not one speck of looting done on Georgetown Street." ()

It's a piecemeal mix of problems, a combination of neglect, looting and vandalism, as well as the very specific theft of art objects. When you look from afar, you think, 'war damage,' but it's really many different things.

The natives were getting restless so to speak, it was very eerie. You could feel a riot building, the looting had already begun.

In the past, she was at the center of the looting in Italy.

The looting was part of the ugliness of Katrina and Rita.

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.