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Property is organized robbery. -- George Bernard Shaw
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. -- Calvin Coolidge
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. -- Luke Evans
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? -- Saint Augustine
Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder. -- Ezra Heywood
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. -- Jessica Savitch
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. -- Johnny Carson
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
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
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
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
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. 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
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons -- Robert Anton Wilson
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. -- Twyla Tharp
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
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
Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat. -- Waylon Jennings
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
In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arson's and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry. -- Carl Panzram
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
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
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land. -- Spotted Tail
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
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery. -- Stephen Crane
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn. -- Mark Twain
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. -- James Chiles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery -- Iceberg Slim
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank. -- Bertolt Brecht
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. -- H. L. Mencken
A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery. -- James Poniewozik
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped. -- Frank Chodorov
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger. -- Victor Hugo
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery. -- Frantz Fanon
Hello...911? I'd like to report a robbery, looks like Trish and Tomko stole the show! -- Trish Stratus
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating. -- Karl Marx
I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination. -- Eugene V. Debs
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery. -- Mark Twain
This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets! -- RZA
All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator. -- Adam Clarke
Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law. -- Albert Parsons
There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right. -- Mary Catherwood
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. -- Wilkie Collins
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white. --
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. -- Samuel Johnson
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. -- Lord Chesterfield
The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery -- Charles Nqakula
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state. -- Honore de Balzac
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. -- David Starr Jordan
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery. -- Diet Eman
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day. -- Sunday Adelaja
Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission Â? that's not bad politics, that's robbery. -- Paul Newman
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it? -- William Allingham
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
No, no, no, no, no. Anything but murder. Or rape. Or kidnapping. Or armed robbery. Or indecent exposure, â??cause thatâ??s just creepy. -- Darynda Jones
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
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
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
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
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
I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me... -- Inspectah Deck
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? -- Saint Augustine
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
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
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. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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

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