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American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. -- Max Lerner
Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears. -- Brian Jacques
The Only Things That Were Available To Me Were Either Be A Laborer Or Be A Drug Dealer. So I Became An Armed Robber. It Was A Lot Simpler. -- Danny Trejo
Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.' -- Bryan Batt
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as the culture of childhood...they capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience -- Maria Tatar
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. -- Dan Quayle
Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth. -- Peter Capaldi
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. -- Amy Lowell
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. -- Ronald Reagan
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed. -- Mickey Kaus
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. -- John Adams
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy. -- John Dillinger
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
Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception. -- Osama bin Laden
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin. -- David Mamet
I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond. -- Charles Dickens
In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off. -- Michael Shnayerson
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. -- Lysander Spooner
Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. -- Wil Wheaton
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face -- Juvenal
Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes. -- Paul McCartney
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face. -- Juvenal
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber. -- Juvenal
But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant. -- Mary Renault
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. -- C. S. Lewis
The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.] -- Juvenal
Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved. -- Margaret Thatcher
It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin -- Edgar Allan Poe
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals? -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time. -- Jack Hyles
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. -- Victor Hugo
I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber. -- Jake M. Johnson
Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property. -- Will Durant
I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire. -- Leon Bloy
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him. -- Woody Allen
I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low -- Emily Dickinson
So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers. -- Scott Lynch
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family. -- Milton Jones
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. -- Ambrose Bierce
The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly supressed. -- Eugene V. Debs
I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut. -- Joey Comeau
Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe. -- Joan Bauer
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand. -- Petrarch
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed -- Mickey Kaus
The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards. -- Clare Short
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance. -- Francis Bacon
Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe. -- Sean Connery
God saved my life miraculously...when I was shot by armed robber. I am a survivor! I am thankful to God for the gift of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all. -- Will Durant
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
I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude. -- Kim Hyesoon
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. -- Benjamin Franklin
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber. -- Sri Aurobindo
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief. -- Lord Byron
[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber. -- John Wesley
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival. -- Carl Sagan
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor. -- Saint Augustine
In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist. Indy: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident. -- James Kahn
Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency. -- Orison Swett Marden

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