Robs Quotes
116 quotes by 102 authors
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly,…
— Charles A. Beard
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
— Edmund Burke
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
— Leo Buscaglia
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the…
— Harold S. Kushner
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by…
— Ayn Rand
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Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance…
— Bertrand Russell
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If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
— Douglas Adams
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Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the…
— Barbara Wood
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people…
— Ralph Nader
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
— William Gurnall
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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
— Mark Twain
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The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because…
— Johnny Marr
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The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the…
— Sheryl Crow
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There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If…
— Bill Maher
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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions,…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to…
— Eugene V. Debs
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting.…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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