Robbers Quotes

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, Government, Justice

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• I rob banks because that's where the money is.

  Willie Sutton

  Money, Robbing, Financial Advisor

  "Willie Sutton Said It First: ‘That's Where the Money Is’" by Leonard Buder, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1979.

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• It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

  Ronald Biggs

  Boys, Tea, Brain

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

  Jessica Savitch

  War, Racing, Robbery

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

  Mary Renault

  Courage, Tyrants, Virtue

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• So the story goes, so I'm told
  The people he knew were
  Less than golden hearted
  Gamblers and robbers
  Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
  Like you and me

  Dave Matthews

  People, Soul, Stories

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• The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kings, Home, Feelings

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• Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Animal, Criminals

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• While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

  James Joyce

  Taken, Giving, Forever

  James Joyce (2016). “FINNEGANS WAKE & EXILES (Complete Edition): Experimental Novel and Play from the Author of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Chamber Music”, p.574, e-artnow

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• In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Class, Cash

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• You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Couple, Sleep, Play

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• Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

  Brian Jacques

  Watches, Ears, Paws

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.150, Penguin

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• When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Winning, Men

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• And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, People, Pirate

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Faces

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• The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

  Barack Obama

  Teenager, Son, Irritation

  "We Can Still Make a Difference". Interview with Jess Cagle, Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. December 29, 2014.

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• I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

  Dan Quayle

  Politics, States, Graves

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• Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

  Tertullian

  Prayer, Fall, Home

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• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Order, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.197, Penguin

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• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  Walter Benjamin

  Conviction, Leap, Strollers

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

  Christina Stead

  Drinking, Europe, Tea

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.419, The Miegunyah Press

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• You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

  Clive Anderson

  Successful, Poisoners, Train

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• Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Eye, Love Is

  Song: Dress Me Up As A Robber

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• There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

  Joe Mantegna

  Evil, Cop, Good And Evil

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• American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

  Max Lerner

  Knights, American Capitalism, Robber Baron

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