Robbers Quotes - Page 5

• The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Secret, Band

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.

  Harry Markopolos

  Jobs, Home, Government

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• Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Compassion, Keys

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• As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Rights, Political

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.338

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• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.

  Joey Comeau

  Jobs, Optimistic, Way

  "Lockpick Pornography". Book by Joey Comeau, 2005.

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• Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

  Amy Lowell

  Time, Giving, Greed

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
  The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
  but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
  and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Sea, Cynical

  Augustine, R. W. Dyson (1998). “Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
  MC's be out like bank robbers,
  Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
  DJ...the getaway driver.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Fleeing

  Song: Living In The World Today

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• We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Soul, Vices

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Age, Modern, Masters

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• I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.

  Eve Ensler

  Distance, Believe, Tasks

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire... Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a hold sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Order

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• The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Strong, Pride, Doors

  Henry Van Dyke (1904). “Music, and Other Poems”

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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• Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.

  Anne Royall

  Men, Differences, People

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• "From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Justice, Politics, Economy

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1073, Modern Library

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• We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

  Daniel Defoe

  Race, Thieves, Ancestry

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

  Leon Bloy

  Prayer, Fire, Doors

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• I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.

  Will Rogers

  Names, America, Ems

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Parent, Unseen, Unemployment

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• The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
  [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

  Juvenal

  Poverty, Traveler

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• Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Holiness, Holy

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• The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

  Juvenal

  Men, Purses, Empty

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• Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
  armed robber, with a pike in his hand.

  Petrarch

  Death, Hands, Way

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