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Thieves Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
- Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and…
- In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried…
- The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
More Thieves Quotes
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that… — Ambrose Bierce
- Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest… — William Blake
- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
- The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. — Jimmy Breslin
- Hunger makes a thief of any man. — Pearl S. Buck
- What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am… — Sitting Bull
- War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
- Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact… — John Cassian