Balance Quote by Maya Angelou

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

— Mary Catherwood

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It's all right if we do a little robbing now.” This belief appeals particularly to one who is unable to compete legally with his…

— Maya Angelou

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Robbery is not just the robbery of money or human flesh; it involves the soul murder of cultures which will soon die if they…

— Diamanda Galás

“If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstain from robbing and murdering one another. So beneficence…

— Adam Smith

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

— George Eliot

“Whenever human activity is directed exclusively to the service of the instinct for self-preservation it is called theft or usury, robbery or burglary etc”

— Adolf Hitler

Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.

— Albert Parsons

“We must choose this, if we have the debt to pay. Murder in one life, and be murdered in the next. Rape in one,…

— Don Bradley

We don't live in a world where, if you commit a crime, your life's over. We as a society believe in rehabilitation. We believe…

— Sara Pascoe

“Robbery is a serious, shameful matter, Captain Blood." "I know it is. I've practised a good deal of it myself.”

— Rafael Sabatini