Robbery Quotes

110 quotes by 101 authors

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother. — Janet Malcolm
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.… — George Eliot
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the â€œsacredness… — Leon Trotsky
Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old… — Elizabeth Chandler
I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place… — Henry David Thoreau
I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. — Wilkie Collins
No, no, no, no, no. Anything but murder. Or rape. Or kidnapping. Or armed robbery. Or indecent exposure, â€™cause thatâ€™s just creepy. — Darynda Jones
Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the… — Nick Harkaway
It is a policemanâ€™s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and… — Ayn Rand
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never… — Henry Hazlitt
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school… — Mark Twain
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. — Twyla Tharp
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting… — Mark Twain
If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some people. Parricide -… — Baron d'Holbach
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. — Luke Evans
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed… — John Edward Redmond
They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the… — Denis Kearney
I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible… — Ronald Biggs
But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the… — Patty Hearst

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