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

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 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.

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?

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.

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.