Quotes About Robbery

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

When an Englishman wants something, George Bernard Shaw observed, he never publicly admits to his wanting it; instead, his want is expressed as 'a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who possess the thing he wants'. Durant is scathing about this pretence: 'Hypocrisy was added to brutality, while the robbery went on.' And

It almost seems as though some very intentional, finely tuned plot against us intends to rob us of who we are in Christ.

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

Thorn!" he said, distracted by the other man's rifling through his belongings. "Are you looking for something in particular, or just planning on robbing me blind?" "You had three or four Gallican shields," Thorn replied. "Thought you might contribute one to the boy. They've issued him the wheel off an oxcart.

De tol?' vroeg Arnaut. 'Ja, dat is een bijzondere vorm van struikroverij,' legde Halt uit.

For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.

'Special 26' was a raw, real film.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

The class-struggle is the main source of progress, and therefore the nobleman who robs the peasant and goads him to revolt is playing a necessary part, just as much as the Jacobin who guillotines the nobleman.

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

Shame is a pillaging thief, one that robs us of dignity, freedom, and joy.

He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst.

It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

a lady lawyer who was working late one night. Her office was downtown. When she finished for the night, she went to the parking ramp to get her car, and someone hit her on the head and robbed her. Everyone thought she was murdered because they couldn't find her, only her papers all over the parking ramp. And blood. Then the police found her in California. She didn't know who she was or how she got there." "I don't believe it.

Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea before heading north into the wilds of Middlesex.

only ever stole from those who had money to spare and remained adamant that crime need not involve thuggery: the Pinkertons found it astonishing that "throughout his career he never used a revolver or jeopardized the life of a victim.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war...This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.