Robbery Quotes

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  Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Liberty, Taxation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

  Mary Catherwood

  Thinking, Righteousness, Terrible

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1901). “Lazarre”

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• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Encouraging, Broken Heart

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 208

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

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, Government, Justice

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• No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

  Walter E. Williams

  Giving, Religion, Liberty

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• Of all crimes the worst
  Is to steal the glory
  From the great and brave,
  Even more accursed
  Than to rob the grave.

  Robert Frost

  Brave, Stealing, Glory

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Initiative, Bank Robbery

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• Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

  Frantz Fanon

  Fruit, Wealth, Results

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.10

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• We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

  Maya Angelou

  Balance, World, Demand

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.173, Modern Library

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• Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Dancing, Splits

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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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• What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Justice, Vote

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• Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Country, Names, Numbers

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• Property is organized robbery.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Organized, Property

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

  Johnny Carson

  New York, Humorous, Taken

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• This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

  Janet Malcolm

  Mother, Art, Armed Robbery

  Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.165, Vintage

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• Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.

  Albert Parsons

  Law, Names, People

  Albert Richard Parsons (1887). “Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis as Defined by Some of Its Apostles”

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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, Dies

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

  Ivanov I

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• Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that. Hey, dude, what are you in for? Armed robbery? Murder? And then, you have to say, Love. And, that's definitely going to get you, you know, picked last for prison kick ball.

  Christopher Titus

  Love You, Someone You Love, Want

  "Titus / Private Dave". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

  George Washington

  Book, 4th Of July, Preparation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lying, Long, Principles

  Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek, Henry Noel Brailsford (2007). “Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky”, Verso Books

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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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