Robbers Quotes

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

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, Government, Justice

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• I rob banks because that's where the money is.

  Willie Sutton

  Money, Robbing, Financial Advisor

  "Willie Sutton Said It First: ‘That's Where the Money Is’" by Leonard Buder, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1979.

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• You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

  Jessica Savitch

  War, Racing, Robbery

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

  Ronald Biggs

  Boys, Tea, Brain

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

  Mary Renault

  Courage, Tyrants, Virtue

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• So the story goes, so I'm told
  The people he knew were
  Less than golden hearted
  Gamblers and robbers
  Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
  Like you and me

  Dave Matthews

  People, Soul, Stories

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• The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kings, Home, Feelings

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• Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Animal, Criminals

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• While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

  James Joyce

  Taken, Giving, Forever

  James Joyce (2016). “FINNEGANS WAKE & EXILES (Complete Edition): Experimental Novel and Play from the Author of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Chamber Music”, p.574, e-artnow

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• In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Class, Cash

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• You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Couple, Sleep, Play

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• Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

  Brian Jacques

  Watches, Ears, Paws

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.150, Penguin

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• When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Winning, Men

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• And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, People, Pirate

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Faces

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• The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

  Barack Obama

  Teenager, Son, Irritation

  "We Can Still Make a Difference". Interview with Jess Cagle, Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. December 29, 2014.

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• I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

  Dan Quayle

  Politics, States, Graves

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• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.

  Joey Comeau

  Jobs, Optimistic, Way

  "Lockpick Pornography". Book by Joey Comeau, 2005.

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• What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in a serial murder case or robberies in a serial bank robber case - and it spatially analyzes the point pattern of incidents, and creates a probability surface from those, working from the basis of an algorithm that says people offend close to where they live, but not too close.

  Kim Rossmo

  People, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

  James Joyce

  Brother, Men, Wife

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.217, First Avenue Editions

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• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Trust No One, Order

  "Tao Te Ching". Ch. 57, 4th century BC.

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• A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

  Lysander Spooner

  Character, Men, Rights

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.7

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• The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Secret, Band

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Religion, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.100, Library of Alexandria

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• When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message to future US president and leaders across the world was clear: do as you're told, or die. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the last true president of the United States. And until the globalists are removed from power, we will never have another real one.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Real, Power

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