Robbery Quotes

192 quotes from 169 authors

A claim reads, ‘When only one party makes a profit that’s robbery, when all parties make profit that’s business.’ The quotes discuss people who justify theft to escape poverty. They also point to corruption that turns bribery and power into a kind of public robbery.

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Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery

Iceberg Slim

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“Morning sickness and bank robbery doesn't mix well.”

Harry Harrison

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I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.

Ryan Gosling

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“Fair exchange is no robbery.”

L.A. Banks

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Property is organized robbery.

George Bernard Shaw

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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

George Bernard Shaw

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“The biggest robbery is to steal someone's dreams...”

Brajendra Pandey

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Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

Robert Anton Wilson

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There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

Mary Catherwood

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All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

Adam Clarke

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Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

William Shakespeare

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Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Johnny Carson

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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

Victor Hugo

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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Lord Chesterfield

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I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

Samuel Johnson

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“The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.”

Zhuangzi

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“You call the police when a robbery takes place. You call the fire department when there is a fire. but, you call…

Sydney Wilhelmy

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The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize…

Eugene V. Debs

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History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with…

William Allingham

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Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against…

Alexander Berkman

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There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by…

Benjamin Franklin

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No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it…

Walter E. Williams

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The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the…

Henry Ford

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No, no, no, no, no. Anything but murder. Or rape. Or kidnapping. Or armed robbery. Or indecent exposure, ’cause that’s just creepy.

Darynda Jones

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Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and…

F.B. Meyer

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It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was…

Benjamin Tucker

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For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos…

Juan Manuel Santos

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If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some…

Baron d'Holbach

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I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing…

Cole Younger

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The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

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The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an…

Martha Plimpton

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Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers…

Alec-Tweedie

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“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar…

George Eliot

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MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am…

Robert Anton Wilson

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Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks,…

David Duke