She said, Surely, when mighty kings invade a country, they despoil it and humiliate its noblest inhabitants, these men will do the same,

She said, Surely, when mighty kings invade a country, they despoil it and humiliate its noblest inhabitants, these men will do the same,

She said Kings, when they enter a country, despoil it, and make the noblest of its people its meanest thus do they behave.

She said Kings, when they enter a country, despoil it, and make the noblest of its people its meanest thus do they behave.

He had the rather gloomy conclusion that humans will inevitably despoil any common pool resource in which people cannot be restrained from using it.

She said Surely when kings enter a city they destroy it and despoil the honour of its nobility. So will they do (to us).

She said Surely when kings enter a city they destroy it and despoil the honour of its nobility. So will they do (to us).

She said verily the kings, when they enter a City, despoil it, and make the most powerful inhabitants thereof the most abased so will they do.

She said verily the kings, when they enter a City, despoil it, and make the most powerful inhabitants thereof the most abased so will they do.

She said Verily! Kings, when they enter a town (country), they despoil it, and make the most honourable amongst its people low. And thus they do.

She said Verily! Kings, when they enter a town (country), they despoil it, and make the most honourable amongst its people low. And thus they do.

Now, Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist, in 1990 asked the interesting question that any good scientist should ask, which is is it really true that humans will always despoil commons?

Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

Remember when you were few, abased in the land, and feared lest the people should despoil you, and He gave you refuge, and strengthened you with His help, and provided you with all the good things so that you may give thanks.

Remember when you were few, abased in the land, and feared lest the people should despoil you, and He gave you refuge, and strengthened you with His help, and provided you with all the good things so that you may give thanks.

Call to mind when ye were a small (band), despised through the land, and afraid that men might despoil and kidnap you But He provided a safe asylum for you, strengthened you with His aid, and gave you Good things for sustenance that ye might be grateful.

Call to mind when ye were a small (band), despised through the land, and afraid that men might despoil and kidnap you But He provided a safe asylum for you, strengthened you with His aid, and gave you Good things for sustenance that ye might be grateful.

And who is more unjust than he who prohibits the name of God being used in His mosques, who hurries to despoil them even though he has no right to enter them except in reverence? For them is ignominy in the world and severe punishment in the life to come.

And who is more unjust than he who prohibits the name of God being used in His mosques, who hurries to despoil them even though he has no right to enter them except in reverence? For them is ignominy in the world and severe punishment in the life to come.

Similarly, these experts concede that the fact that the United States has not signed the Law of the Sea, the international convention determining who has access to offshore oil and other maritime mineral rights, presents a risk of international conflict. But they also point to the upside the oil industry, in its never ending search for more reserves, need not beg Congress for the right to despoil Alaska.

O ye who believe! When ye go forth (to fight) in the way of Allah, be careful to discriminate, and say not unto one who offereth you peace Thou art not a believer, seeking the chance profits of this life (so that ye may despoil him). With Allah are plenteous spoils. Even thus (as he now is) were ye before but Allah hath since then been gracious unto you. Therefore take care to discriminate. Allah is ever Informed of what ye do.

O ye who believe! When ye go forth (to fight) in the way of Allah, be careful to discriminate, and say not unto one who offereth you peace Thou art not a believer, seeking the chance profits of this life (so that ye may despoil him). With Allah are plenteous spoils. Even thus (as he now is) were ye before but Allah hath since then been gracious unto you. Therefore take care to discriminate. Allah is ever Informed of what ye do.