Bandits Quotes

• What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

  Saint Augustine

  Justice, Kingdoms, Gang

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• 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

  Dream, Escaping, Dozen

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• Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

  Mariano Azuela

  Revolution, Rebellious, Thinker

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• Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

  Robert Burns

  Cutting, Criticism, Path

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1829). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings”, p.65

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• Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

  Ihara Saikaku

  House, Widows, Suitors

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised”, Cambridge University Press

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• The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

  Anton Chekhov

  Fire, Hatred, Literature

  "Uncle Vanya". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

  Colin Meloy

  Bells, Cups, Adages

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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• I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, New Day, Soldier

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

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• I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Peace, Mistake, Stress

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• There is no bandit so powerful as Nature.
  The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe.
  In the whole universe there is no escape from it.

  Zhuangzi

  Nature, Powerful, Science

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• Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Artist, Wish, Attention

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• The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

  H. L. Mencken

  Military, War, Party

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.314, Knopf

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• My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.

  John Scarne

  Player, Thinking, Gambling

  John Scarne (1961). “Complete guide to gambling”

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• Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

  Jerry Reed

  Running, Car, Larks

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• Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

  Caryl Chessman

  Light, Names, Two

  Caryl Chessman (1957). “The Face of Justice”

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

  Eric Bristow

  Golf, Play, Two

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

  Anthony Quinn

  Brother, Mexican, Bob

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• Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.

  Ayn Rand

  Goal, Political, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

  Andre Gide

  Fall, Army, Gun

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• "Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Europe, Two, Patriotism

  Robert Anton Wilson (1982). “The Earth Will Shake: A Novel”, J P Tarcher

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• You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Wise, Men, Humanity

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• The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Country, Sacrifice, People

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• Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Vegas, Email, Three

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.wyso.org. March 27, 2013.

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