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Quotes About Outlaws

The Angels, like all other motorcycle outlaws, are rigidly anti-Communist. Their political views are limited to the same kind of retrograde patriotism that motivates the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. They are blind to the irony of their role . . . knight errants of a faith from which they have already been excommunicated. The Angels will be among the first to be locked up or croaked if the politicians they think they agree with ever come to power.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.
~ Jim Coleman
Although I proudly admit to being a robber (attaching as I do a certain prestige to my calling), I must make it quite clear, so clear that there is no room for doubt, that I am not a murderer. And while it is true that outlaws of both departments are schooled by the faculty of lawlessness, it is equally true that they are separated by a moral chasm as vast as the difference in syllabi which divides BA candidates from those pursuing a BSc.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Books were the one way Clara could wander, so she was more than happy to spend her morning with the Black Knight and legendary outlaws of the forest.
~ Kathleen O'Dell
Oh, we have everyone who is bad. Except Bonnie and Clyde on account of their being dead," she says.
~ Gennifer Choldenko
I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
~ Gary Johnson
I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
The Outlaws generally write as well as the bankers, though more briefly. Some writers flourish like opportunistic weeds by hiding among the citizens, others by toughing it out in some sort of desert or another.
~ Tobias Wolff
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
~ Tom Robbins
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.
~ Tom Robbins
As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen. Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.
~ Tom Robbins
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. ? Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
~ Tom Robbins
Criminals, because they're plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they're pure, never will.
~ Tom Robbins
Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.
~ Tom Robbins
Outlaws or poachers, makes no matter. Dead men make poor company.
~ George R.R. Martin
If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
~ Tags: insomnia
The hinterlands . Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I should be rejoicing. My sister and I are both safe and LeBeau and his outlaws
~ Gilbert Morris
We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.
~ Jimmy Buffett
I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.
~ Clay Allison
I know where The List is-my father has taken me to see it many times. Maybe for just this reason. And I know what it is: The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. And I know who I am: Daniel, son of Graff, son of Terfdon- The Alien Hunter. No last name, just Daniel X.
~ James Patterson
Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
~ Lane Garrison
There ain't no law in Mexico. It's just a pack of rogues.
~ Cormac McCarthy
How many cats you got? Several. Depends on what you mean by got. Some of em are half wild and the rest are just outlaws. They run out the door when they heard your truck.
~ Cormac McCarthy