Robbers Quotes

68 Robbers quotes by 58 unique authors

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will… — Edward Dahlberg
One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another… — Marcus Aurelius
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. — Ambrose Bierce
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the… — Tertullian
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. — Walter Benjamin
You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers. — Clive Anderson
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. — Joe Mantegna
What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with… — William Shakespeare
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. — Jay Leno
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them,… — Brigham Young
The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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… — Will Rogers
When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more… — Vladimir Lenin
Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers. — William Hazlitt
I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and… — Mariska Hargitay
You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is… — Chris O'Donnell
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. — Lysander Spooner
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious… — Lysander Spooner
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest… — Lysander Spooner
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer… — Cal Thomas
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… — Victor Hugo
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But… — James Joyce
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… — Joey Comeau
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they… — Jules Verne
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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