Robbers Quotes - Page 8

• He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sports, Doe, Praise

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.86

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• Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Parent, Unseen, Unemployment

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• The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
  [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

  Juvenal

  Poverty, Traveler

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• The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

  Juvenal

  Men, Purses, Empty

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• Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Holiness, Holy

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• Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
  armed robber, with a pike in his hand.

  Petrarch

  Death, Hands, Way

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• The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Stupid, Dumb

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

  Sherman Alexie

  Night, Assumption, Cop

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

  Nicolas Cage

  Passion, Long, Killers

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• We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

  Jeff Cooper

  Hurt, Views, Circles

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• You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

  Bryan Cranston

  Might, Emotion, Roller Coaster

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• I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

  Mariska Hargitay

  New York, Thinking, Gun

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• Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Scary, Muggers

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• The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

  Lysander Spooner

  Law, Liberty, Assassins

  Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.27

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• If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, United States, Dollars

  "Let's Abolish Government".

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• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  Cal Thomas

  Gun, Government, People

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