Robert Kurson Quotes

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

I want to live fast and die young.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

In every war, there's looting.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

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

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

Where there is a sea there are pirates.

Men, or squads of men, who commit hostilities, whether by fighting, or inroads for destruction or plunder, or by raids of any kind, without commission, without being part and portion of the organized hostile army, and without sharing continuously in the war, but who do so with intermitting returns to their homes and avocations, or with the occasional assumption of the semblance of peaceful pursuits, divesting themselves of the character or appearance of soldiers - such men, or squads of men, are not public enemies, and, therefore, if captured, are not entitled to the privileges of prisoners of war, but shall be treated summarily as highway robbers or pirates.

I have not come here for such reasons. I have come to take away their gold.

I carried off his silver, gold, alabaster possessions, … and much bronze property, his palace women and his daughters, … his wagons, his oxen, his sheep, and his valuable tribute which like the stars of heaven, had no number.

There's always a little jump to your heart when you realize you've got looting.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.

Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.