Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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.
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
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.
Property is organized robbery.
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.
Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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.
Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
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.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
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.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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.
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.
We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.
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.
Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
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