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Quotes About Bandits

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~ Ford Madox Ford
Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
~ Robert Burns
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
~ Russell Baker
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.
~ Shannon Hale
About seven hundred years ago, a pack of bandits arrived in central Italy, led by two brothers named Romulus and Remus. They despoiled the nearby peoples of land and women and set up their own little bandit state. At some point, Romulus established a fine old Roman tradition by murdering his brother. Had it been the other way around, I suppose we might now be living in a city named Reme.
~ John Maddox Roberts
My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people hardly dare venture, and where bandits abound.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
~ Caryl Chessman
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.
~ Shannon Hale
They were not pursuing the bandits. Miri felt so relieved she began to cry behind closed eyes. "She's weeping from fright," Miri heard someone whisper. "Poor delicate creature.
~ Shannon Hale
But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed.
~ Jorge Amado
These bandits would tax their own military to buy the votes of morons.
~ Flavio Volpe
We already knew how much there was; it was splashed all over the evening papers in large, glaring headlines: 'Bank robbers grab £67,500!' 'Biggest bank robbery ever!' 'Daring bandits escape with huge sum!' Take your pick; it all made lurid reading. According to the press the police were closing in on the raiders and their arrest was imminent. I got up and put the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door - that should stop them!
~ Stephen Richards
Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world...
~ Terry Pratchett
He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
~ Isabel Allende
still fought duels, because he thought that bandits lurked on the Curacaví Hill
~ Isabel Allende
The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits
~ H. L. Mencken
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.
~ Mariano Azuela
I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.
~ Jasper Carrott
What security could there be for any civilized person in any part of the world when bandits were permitted to seize the resources of nation after nation, to murder all the free-minded people and set all the wage-slaves to work producing mass destruction?
~ Upton Sinclair
Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band of blackguards. You know they are vicious, violent, and ignorant. They are complete barbarians, living out their cruelest fantasies, their behavior tempered only by the presence of a few decent men. I do not often show that side because these men are my brethren, my family, and I was taught young not to speak ill of kin. The old lessons die hardest.
~ Glen Cook
Banditi e malaria hanno fatto il paesaggio italiano (borghi e città in luoghi elevati, difendibili e salubri); altri banditi e altra malaria si dirà lo disfecero.
~ Guido Ceronetti