Robbing Quotes

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Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply… — George Orwell
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. — Bobby Fischer
Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who… — Robert Reich
The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop. — Tony Blair
I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps. — Mickey Rourke
Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical. — Giovanni Bisignani
Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some… — George Washington Carver
If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself. — Quinton Jackson
I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more. — Hayao Miyazaki
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. — George Bernard Shaw
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life. — Paul McCartney
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and… — Mary Wortley Montagu
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking… — Thomas de Quincey
Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and… — Edward Abbey
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air… — Henry David Thoreau
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot… — N.D. Wilson
We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and… — Ronald Reagan
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. — Markus Zusak
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel… — Guy de Maupassant

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