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Quotes About Outlaw

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.
~ David Whyte
I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.
~ Chic Murray
What's your name?""Emma Gould, " she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?
~ Dennis Lehane, Live by Night
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
~ Ani DiFranco
Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.
~ Katherine Paterson
There's simply no reason for a civilian to own a military-style assault weapon. It's no different than why we outlaw civilian ownership of rockets and landmines.
~ Seth Moulton
we are at the crossroads, my little outlaw, and this is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty
~ Richard Siken
And as he lost that softness of nature, so he lost his fear of men. He would watch for Oldring, biding his time, and he would kill this great black-bearded rustler who had held a girl in bondage, who had used her to his infamous ends.
~ Zane Grey
Prohibition had long been repealed (1933), but in a strange congruence Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who gave his name to the act, died on January 20, 1947, just five days before the outlaw who arguably profited most from it.
~ Deirdre Bair
Illegal, yes, but almost everything I do is illegal, so why start worrying now?
~ Eoin Colfer
'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever.
~ Michael Biehn
All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.
~ Lily Rabe
I've always loved a good Western.
~ Ryan Robbins
You look at me: you see the tattoos, and I ride a motorcycle.
~ Baron Corbin
You don't outlaw Open Carry anywhere and reasonably expect to get to your destination - Constitutional Carry.
~ Rick Ector
Ride with an outlaw, die with him, he added. I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works. I'm sorry you crossed the line, though. Jake's momentary optimism had passed, and he felt tired and despairing. He would have liked a good bed in a whorehouse and a nice night's sleep. I never seen no line, Gus, he said. I was just trying to get to Kansas without getting scalped.
~ Larry McMurtry
Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public.
~ Larry McMurtry
I'd rather go outlaw than be a doctor or a lawyer.
~ Larry McMurtry
This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.
~ Doris Egan, Two-Bit Heroes
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
~ Tom Robbins
I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.
~ Mark Ruffalo
When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.
~ Pierce Brosnan
Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' have gone a long way to popularise both pirates and outlaw behaviour, the truth of the matter is that piracy is illegal, and it kills.
~ Peter Middlebrook
society is not identical with the state. Society is composed of people, freely associating and forming communities of interest that socialists have no right to control and no authority to outlaw. To
~ Roger Scruton