Robbing Quotes

• What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Funny Money, Founding

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• The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

  John Stuart Mill

  Opportunity, Errors, Race

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.163, Hackett Publishing

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• You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Might

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• Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Fire, People, Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Encouraging, Broken Heart

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 208

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

  Willie Sutton

  Money, Financial Advisor, Robbers

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

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• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Death, Drinking, Procrastination

  "On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839)

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• What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Best Friend, True Friend, World

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• Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

  Pope Francis

  Children, War, Thinking

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.160, SPCK

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• Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.

  Willie Sutton

  Jobs, Two, Alive

  Willie Sutton, Edward Linn (2004). “Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber”, p.136, Broadway Books

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• If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

  Ben Bradlee

  May, Journalism, Stores

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Children, War, People

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• I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

  Cole Younger

  Life, States, Missouri

  Cole Younger (2014). “The Story of Cole Younger”, p.19, Minnesota Historical Society Press

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• Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Money, Loss, Men

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• I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Gentleman, Rich, Poor

  1903 Mendoza and John Tanner. Man and Superman, act 3.

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• A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

  George Vancouver

  Taken, Vancouver, British

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• When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.

  Hilary Rosen

  Technology, Thinking, People

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• The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

  Bobby Fischer

  Israel, Years, Palestinian

  "The Fischer king" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2005.

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• I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

  Mickey Rourke

  Special, Accomplish

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• When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Joel Osteen (2015). “Daily Readings from You Can, You Will: 90 Devotions to Becoming a Winner”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

  Raymond E. Feist

  Mother, Uncles, Assassins

  Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra

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• If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

  Lucy Stone

  Mother, Children, Guilt

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• My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

  Edward Brooke

  Race, Parent, Mind

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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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• Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

  Ivanov I

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