Robbery Quotes

110 quotes by 101 authors

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by… — George Bernard Shaw
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. — George Eliot
A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not… — Greg Smith
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty… — Saint Augustine
History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of… — Matilda Joslyn Gage
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms… — Ouida
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. — Calvin Coolidge
We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt!… — Jeff Cooper
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. — Jessica Savitch
Property is organized robbery. — George Bernard Shaw
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
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because… — Lysander Spooner
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season… — George Washington
MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a… — Robert Anton Wilson
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons — Robert Anton Wilson
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of… — John Irving
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. — H. L. Mencken
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved… — Markus Zusak
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established… — Charles Dickens

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