Numbers are outlaws--bandits. They make rules in your mind.

The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers…

— Mao Zedong

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with…

— Raphael

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous…

— Michelle Malkin

“We heard bandits return several nights after that, but they never again entered the house. It wasn't until after the war that I learned…

— Darlene Deibler Rose

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to…

— L. Neil Smith

“In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and…

— Tod Wodicka

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man,…

— Herman Melville

The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

— Laozi

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the…

— Boris Yeltsin

“No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us...”

— Joseph Conrad

Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of…

— Harold Covington

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

Two weeks after having Bandit I was in a recording studio. I hadnt yet really fully understood what being a dad was and, man,…

— Gerard Way

To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line?…

— Paul Krugman