Quotes About Outlaws

#1. I know where The List is-my father has taken me to see it many times. Maybe for just this reason. And I know what it is: The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. And I know who I am: Daniel, son of Graff, son of Terfdon- The Alien Hunter. No last name, just Daniel X.

James Patterson

#2. Some of us are Outlaws, and some Trespassers upon the very World.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!

George Carlin

#4. If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

#5. I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.

Clay Allison

#6. I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.

Jim Coleman

#7. If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

Alan Moore

#8. If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.

Gary Johnson

#9. Later, they also found a camp of outlaws who, when offered the chance to join the rebel ranks, unsheathed their daggers and threatened to cut the three into tiny, bloody pieces and eat them for dinner.
They too that as a firm no.

Morgan Rhodes

#10. However, he didn't have a high opinion of the average man's ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn't fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few could shoot well, and even fewer had any mind for strategy.

Larry McMurtry

#11. We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.

Dale Peck

#12. Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

Murray Rothbard

#13. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

Mark Twain

#14. The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller ... Knowledge is experience.

Paracelsus

#15. If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Jello Biafra

#16. The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Eduardo Galeano

#17. Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.

Tom Robbins

#18. My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan

#19. When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

Edward Abbey

#20. As I look through my box of photos, my eyes well up with tears as I hold in front of me, the one of my brother Spence when he was five years old. He looks so cute in his cowboy outfit, drawing his toy pistols as if he were having a showdown with nasty outlaws.

Terra Lorin

#21. If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

Tom Robbins

#22. When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

Chief Joseph

#23. If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain elements in common: a harsh landscape; demons or outlaws trying to stop or kill the protagonist; and there are mythical legends at their core, innate in all cultures.

Simon Toyne

#24. In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

Salman Rushdie

#25. If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

Johann Sigurjonsson

#26. What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

Lord Byron

#27. In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome:

Hunter S. Thompson

#28. Some hate us, think us outlaws to hang at the gallows.
Some fear us, think demons to burn at the stake,
Some worship us, think us children of the gods.
But all know us.

Marie Lu

#29. You know how that goes, G. William," Jazz said lightly. "If you outlaw police scanners, only outlaws will have police scanners.

Barry Lyga

#30. I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

Tod Goldberg

#31. If earls' daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we'd all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws.

Ken Follett

#32. He'd listened to enough half-truths and outright lies from the outlaws he'd collected bounties on not to notice the slight hesitations in her speech or the exaggerated casualness of her posture. The woman was up to something. Heeding

Karen Witemeyer

#33. Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Tom Robbins

#34. Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.

Robert Venosa

#35. Underneath this little stone
Lies Robert Earl of Huntington;
No other archer was so good -
And people called him Robin Hood.
Such outlaws as he and his men
Will England never see again.

Roger Lancelyn Green

#36. Brother. But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute

George Orwell

#37. Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

#38. I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

Gary Johnson

#39. When guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Louis L'Amour

#40. My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws.

Malcolm X

#41. The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

Clarence Day

#42. I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.

Paz De La Huerta

#43. When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

Tom Robbins

#44. I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

Theo Rossi

#45. Outlaws like to sleep in. I've been FBI for eight years, and I've never once had cause to shoot anyone before eleven in the morning. Not as long as I get my coffee anyway.

Joe Hill

#46. Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

James Joyce

#47. If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Phil Zimmermann

#48. Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

Tom Robbins

#49. Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

Waylon Jennings

#50. The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#51. in wildernesses where weather and gravity create dire consequences for the smallest of offenses, it only takes a few outlaws to bring mayhem and disaster.

Michael Kodas

#52. There's something
so great about this," she whispers.
About what?" I whisper back.
About this," she whispers.
About being outlaws.
It's just you and me - against the world.

Sonya Sones

#53. We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here: / White whales are gone with the white ocean.

Sylvia Plath

#54. KILKENNY STUDIED THE street outside. The bulk of the outlaws seemed to have holed up in the livery stable and they were putting up a hot fire. Others had taken positions behind a pile of stones beyond the street and still others in the bunkhouse. There was no way to estimate their numbers. Some

Louis L'Amour

#55. All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

Marilyn French

#56. Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

Jerry Coleman

#57. There were outlaws too; men too slothful to work and too selfish to care who they harmed or how much human suffering they caused.

C.M. Curtis

#58. Outlaws or poachers, makes no matter. Dead men make poor company.

George R R Martin

#59. We're both young Dominicans who represent North Brooklyn, but we're also hardened criminals," Reynoso said. "We're dance outlaws.

Emily Witt

#60. There's always one more notch and four more aces Billy, and you're playin' all alone.

Bob Dylan

#61. Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.

Randolph Bourne

#62. When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice compliments on our disguises, but no more than that.

Peter S. Beagle

#63. Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust - a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary!

Walt Kelly

#64. She was dangerous. I'd heard the rumors, that she had a history as a wild woman, that she'd been married to a gambler, maybe even been one herself, that her past was scandalous at best. But who was I to judge? My past was littered with scandal.

Margaret Madigan

#65. We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back
most of them
and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day.

Peter S. Beagle