Robbing Quotes
86 quotes by 84 authors
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
— Bertolt Brecht
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
— Bobby Jones
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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say…
— Tim Costello
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The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in…
— William J. Clinton
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It’s…
— Michelle Rhee
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One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of…
— Mike Tyson
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good…
— Thomas Szasz
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The public doesn’t have to be hostile to the rich. ‘Robbing the rich to help the poor’ will only drive the rich away to other…
— Zong Qinghou
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As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that…
— Rupert Hughes
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If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose…
— Paul Crouch
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is…
— Thomas Sowell
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Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
— Peter Schiff
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I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such…
— John Dillinger
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A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.
— George Vancouver
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If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
— Ben Bradlee
Who Wrote These Robbing Quotes
84 authors contributed a total of 86 Robbing Quotes, led by these top contributors: