Top 100 Quotes About Robbery
#1. The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
Luke Evans
#2. It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
John Frederick Boyes
#3. Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.
William S. Burroughs
#4. Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
Frantz Fanon
#6. All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.
David Starr Jordan
#7. I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.
Robert Anton Wilson
#9. 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
#10. But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
Patty Hearst
#11. History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#12. It is in this sense that Franklin says, war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.
Karl Marx
#13. Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
H.L. Mencken
#14. They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.
Denis Kearney
#15. Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
John Edward Redmond
#16. Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
Mark Twain
#17. DMX Death Threats Gun Death: 35, Generic Threat: 20, Beat Up to Death: 6, Non-Gun Weapon: 5, Robbery Death: 2, Death by Truth: 1 "Niggas wanna lie/Then niggas wonder why/Niggas wanna die" There are 69 death threats on DMX's It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
Shea Serrano
#18. 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
#19. You call the police when a robbery takes place. You call the fire department when there is a fire. but, you call a friend when you're down.
Sydney Wilhelmy
#20. I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.
Samuel Johnson
#21. For such unjust acts of robbery lead automatically to vengeance and punishments, as Augustine's statement bears out. "Gain in the coffer," he says, "harm in the conscience." 55 No unjust gain is without most unjust harm.
Martin Luther
#22. Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.
August Spies
#23. 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
#24. In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Lord Chesterfield
#25. This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars.
We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!
RZA
#26. The odds were incredibly stacked against a werewolf ever meeting his one-in-a-billion soul mate. There was no way Becker could have met his in the midst of an armed robbery. That kind of crap didn't happen in the real world.
Paige Tyler
#27. I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime ... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.
Angelina Grimke
#28. Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.
Anthony Trollope
#29. I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
Richard Stallman
#30. head. "I don't understand." "The details are still unclear, but the probable motive is robbery.
Netta Newbound
#31. A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.
James Poniewozik
#32. You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Jessica Savitch
#33. Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery
Iceberg Slim
#34. First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
Richard Ford
#35. Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
#36. to plunder, slaughter and robbery they give the lying name of empire;
Yuval Noah Harari
#37. Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
Frank Chodorov
#38. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
Jules Verne
#39. I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.
Tam David-West
#41. A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to our system of remorseless exploitation and robbery.
Emma Goldman
#42. In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Augustine Of Hippo
#43. Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.
William Shakespeare
#44. It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.
Marge Piercy
#45. 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
#46. The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
Tony Hillerman
#47. It was not the money that was my main motive; it was the challenge and the thrill where I got my kicks. Armed robbery to me was like a sport. To take on an armored vehicle with two armed security guards - it was like an athlete attending the Olympic Games.
Drexel Deal
#48. Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#49. Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Johnny Carson
#50. Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
Victor Hugo
#51. I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. We could track down a gang guy wanted for armed robbery and assault." "That sounds like a lot of fun, but I might have to pass on account of I don't want to die right now." "We could visit some of Sunny's relatives and ask if he's staying with them." "Ditto for the above reason.
Janet Evanovich
#53. Wouldn't hear of it. Long as you don't need me to drive a getaway car for your bank robbery I'll happily take you wherever you need to go. Think of it as the town welcome wagon.
Neil Gaiman
#54. This is a robbery. Sorry for the inconvenience'n'all but if you don't line up out here at the count of five then I'm gonna get all trigger-happy on your ass. One, two ...
Philip Webb
#55. We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general mayhem, adultery, screwing over the government, basic intimidation and thuggery, etc.). It's a very American ideal - the freedom to break the law.
Tod Goldberg
#56. 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
#57. The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy
Henry Ford
#58. Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness.
Anatole France
#59. The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.
Martha Plimpton
#60. Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in concert, and calling themselves a government, as when it is done by a single individual, acting on his own responsibility, and calling himself a highwayman.
Lysander Spooner
#61. If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.
Lysander Spooner
#62. 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
#63. Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#64. Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.
Claire Coffee
#65. There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.
Marlon James
#66. You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
Nelson Algren
#67. The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
John Calvin
#68. Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.
Alexander Berkman
#69. Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.
Ezra Heywood
#70. Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission - that's not bad politics, that's robbery.
Paul Newman
#71. 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
#72. Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.
Alec-Tweedie
#73. I found the bank robbery getaway car but was scolded over the FBI radio. Why?"
~ From Walking the Corporate Beat: Police School for Business People.
Michael Tabman
#74. My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender ... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.
Maria Jeritza
#75. It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.
Ayn Rand
#76. 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
#77. I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
Eugene V. Debs
#78. Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.
Noah Webster
#79. The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.
Charles Dickens
#80. Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea before heading north into the wilds of Middlesex.
Ben Aaronovitch
#81. Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
William Shakespeare
#82. All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
Adam Clarke
#83. I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.
Robert Kiyosaki
#84. I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.
Aziz Ansari
#85. I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.
Ronald Biggs
#86. Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Bertolt Brecht
#87. There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war ... this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.
Benjamin Franklin
#88. She hesitated but her stomach won out. After all, an intruder who made her breakfast couldn't be all bad. Maybe that's just how they did it in Echo Falls; breakfast and a robbery.
Jaime McDougall
#89. Shadow was amused, and a little puzzled, to realize that he was far more concerned about breaking the rules by climbing onto the carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon's bank robbery.
Neil Gaiman
#90. There have been only five burglars in the history of robbery who have specialized in rope. All five of these burglars were caught and sent to prison, which is why scarcely any people lock up their rope for safekeeping.
Lemony Snicket
#91. There is no denying that Francis Drake was a pirate and that the enterprise he conducted four years later in Panama was highway robbery, or at best, highjacking. But it was on the scale that transforms crime into politics.
Edmund S. Morgan
#92. The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
Albert J. Nock
#93. Hello ... 911? I'd like to report a robbery, looks like Trish and Tomko stole the show!
Trish Stratus
#94. You just robbed a revenue cart.' 'That was neither stealing nor robbery. Whose money did we capture?' 'Why, the King's!' 'King's, you say! What right has an English King to the wealth of our land?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
#95. These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to leave something rather than take it.
Sarah Dessen
#96. We had our breakfasts
whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
Wilkie Collins
#97. It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.
Edmond Francois Valentin About
#99. The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
Eugene V. Debs
#100. Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please?
Joe Abercrombie
