Thieves Quotes - Page 3

• [Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.

  Tommy Chong

  Real, Liars, Character

  Source: vegascannabismag.com

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• Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Book, Light, Prometheus

  Twitter post from Apr 28, 2011

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• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dog, Stupid, Boys

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

  Emma Goldman

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, War, Fighting

  "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Punishment, Doe, Favour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

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• Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.

  Caroline Manzo

  My Family, Ends, Protect

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• That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

  Alan Rickman

  Kitchen, Robin Hood, Orphan

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• The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

  Euripides

  Honesty, Night, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The Complete Greek Tragedies”

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• Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.

  Robin Sharma

  Fear, Liars, Limits

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• My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

  Brent Spiner

  Song, Gypsy, Unforgettable

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• God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

  Mother Jones

  Gang, Almighty, Made

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, Courier Corporation, (p. 125), April 30, 2012.

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• War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

  George Herbert

  Peace, War, Art Of War

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.159

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• Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

  Bhartrhari

  Happiness, Kings, Yield

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• I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

  Charles Portis

  Brain, Grit, Mouths

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.73, A&C Black

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• The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

  Karl Kraus

  Broken, Triumph, Morality

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• I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was asked why a killer sometimes doesn't even get indicted and a cattle thief can get ten years. The judge answered: "A lot of fellows ought to be shot, but we don't have any cows that need stealin".

  Percy Foreman

  Texas, Years, Law

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• Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Believe, Book

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

  Anthony Marais

  Writing, Keys, Doors

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• The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Sheep, Bells

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• He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Trust, Money, Wish

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• The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty.

  Murray Rothbard

  Hands, People, Liberty

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• When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists. We are lucky, indeed, if the needless bureaucrats are mere easy-going loafers. They are more likely today to be energetic reformers busily discouraging and disrupting production.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Support, Lucky

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.69, Crown Business

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• Opportunity makes a thief.

  Francis Bacon

  Opportunity

  'A Letter of Advice to the Earl of Essex...' (1598) in J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Letters and Life of Francis Bacon' vol. 2 (1862) p. 99

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• We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

  Michael Horton

  Police, Reason, Officers

  Michael Horton (2011). “Putting Amazing Back Into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel”, p.46, Baker Books

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