Quotes About Robbery

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

I didn't actually rob anyone but once I was kidnapped by two older boys for half a day and they were trying to get me to steal or mug someone.

the disgust of friends and family, the loss of reputation—the only loss ever, the one robbery. Who steals my purse steals trash.… But he that filches from me my good name—And who was doing that for him, who but himself?

I robbed one of them little high-interest banks there. Thought I was doing a good service. You can't rob a thief, can you? I never robbed no citizens. I never taken a man's watch." "It is all stealing," said I. "That was the position they taken in New Mexico," said he.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon fue el primero en promover la anarquía, que definió en 1840 como «la ausencia de señor, de un soberano». Fue él quien planteó la pregunta: «¿Qué es la propiedad?», a la que contestó con su famosa respuesta: «Un robo».

Correct in his later assessment of war in general, Sherman was decidedly incorrect in this statement. The Nez Perce had both just cause and provocation for going to war. The whites were in the process of stealing their ancestral lands and had cheated, robbed, and killed some of them.

For instance, if you are a bank robber - although I hope you aren't - you might go to the bank a few days before you planned to rob it. Perhaps wearing a disguise, you would look around the bank and observe security guards, cameras, and other obstacles, so you could plan how to avoid capture or death during your burglary.

In the two months following the revolution the industrialists have robbed the whole of Russia.

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Mama said that there was not going to be a bank robbery—the Lord wouldn't allow it. Frank didn't see why not, and Papa seemed to agree with him—he said, "Well, he's allowed plenty of 'em." Mama said that sometimes Satan got away with things and sometimes he didn't

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

I love feeling like I'm inhabiting the body of a ninja, like I could rob a liquor store with my bare hands if I wanted to.

Cynicism is a disease that robs people of the gift of life.

The upshot of it was, that Rosanna Spearman had been a thief, and not being of the sort that get up Companies in the City, and rob from thousands, instead of only robbing from one, the law laid hold of her, and the prison and the reformatory followed the lead of the law.

He robbed a bank in Wichita.

In any case, the two countries had stayed alive over the centuries mainly by warring on each other. There had been the Olive War, the Tuna Fish Discrepancy, which almost bankrupted both nations, the Roman Rift, which did send them both into insolvency, only to be followed by the Discord of the Emeralds, in which they both got rich again, chiefly by banding together for a brief period and robbing everybody within sailing distance.

Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful. Guard: People kept robbing it. Butch: Small price to pay for beauty.

Kyle was busy helping Holmes figure out that the Red-Headed League was just a clever ploy pulled by some robbers to get a red-haired pawnbroker to leave his shop long enough for them to dig a tunnel from his basement to the bank next door when the librarian's voice jolted him out of London and brought

Done any more robberies?" he asked with a nervous grin. You look a right berk," I told him, ignoring his question. I'd learnt from Tam that cruelty was an effective method against sadness. I'd cried much less since I'd known her.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.

game against Italy, Suárez could clearly be seen on video robbing