Outlaw Quotes - Page 4

• It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

  Ayn Rand

  Law, Purpose, Return

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.443, Hamilton Books

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• Quiet night, that brings
  Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day,
  In which he rises early to do wrong,
  And when his work is ended dares not sleep.

  Philip Massinger

  Sleep, Night, Quiet

  Philip Massinger (1817). “Beauties of Massinger”, p.246

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• If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

  Johann Sigurjonsson

  Integrity, Would Be, Ethics

  Jóhann Sigurjónsson (1916). “Modern Icelandic Plays: Eyvind of the Hills, The Hraun Farm”, p.48, Library of Alexandria

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• The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job for a boss who has usurped power and is acting as an outlaw government. It is the courage at last to face honestly the truth and reality of what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Jobs, War, Lying

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• Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

  Martin Luther

  Hurtful, Rebel, Doe

  Martin Luther, Jene M. Porter (1974). “Luther: Selected Political Writings”, Philadelphia : Fortress Press

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• I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, People, Trying

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle”, p.1542, Bantam

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• Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Immature, Hips

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

  Mitt Romney

  Farming, Embryos, Surplus

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• Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Enemy, Events

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• Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

  Ani DiFranco

  Government, Talking, Imagination

  Song: Evolve, Album: Evolve, 2003

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• A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Party, Organization

  "Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah". Book by Marvin Zonis, p. 75, 1991.

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• The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.

  Peter Akinola

  Sex, Law, Ideas

  Communique on the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill, 2006.

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• They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.

  Jane Russell

  Years, Doing Me, Publicity

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• All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

  Marilyn French

  Littles, Feels, Knows

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

  John F. Kerry

  Organization, Political, Agendas

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• I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Believe, Effort

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• I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Home, Land

  Frederick Douglass (2008). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.

  Matthew Fox

  War, Heart, Civilization

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• Underneath this little stone
  Lies Robert Earl of Huntington;
  No other archer was so good -
  And people called him Robin Hood.
  Such outlaws as he and his men
  Will England never see again.

  Roger Lancelyn Green

  Lying, Archer, Men

  Roger Lancelyn Green (2010). “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.242, Penguin UK

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• If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

  Charlie Ergen

  Winning, Claims, Broadcasters

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• Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking Gaza and declaring that there be no further diplomatic process - will lead to strong regional and global reactions, as well as intensify efforts at the UN and in civil society to brand Israel as an outlaw state dangerous to regional and world peace and guilty of criminal behavior.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Moving, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I first came on the scene, I don't think people knew what to make of the way I dress, my aesthetic and how that ties into my music. It took a lot of explaining. You don't really see females in country music dressed in all black wearing funeral garb with netting on their face. I have a bit of a gothic sense to me in a lot of ways, with a bit of outlaw country, rockabilly and blues. My subject matter is off the cuff a little bit.

  Lindi Ortega

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Mein Kampf, this terrible book of Adolph Hitler is outlawed. I made a point in the Dutch parliament that I say to all these liberal politicians and socialist politicians in my own parliament that, "Hey you are very happy here, you applauded the fact that Mein Kampf was outlawed in the Netherlands. If you are really consistent, you should, for the same arguments that you use as liberal politicians to outlaw Mein Kampf, outlaw the Koran as well."

  Geert Wilders

  Book, Mein Kampf, Use

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

  Denise Mina

  Shoes, Laughing, Way

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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