Top 138 Robbery Quotes & Sayings

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will.

A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

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.

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.

Tough action is being taken on criminals involved in robbery, kidnapping and other related crimes.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

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.

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.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Property is organized robbery.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery

I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.

...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.

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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?

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery

No, no, no, no, no. Anything but murder. Or rape. Or kidnapping. Or armed robbery. Or indecent exposure, ’cause that’s just creepy.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

Hello...911? I'd like to report a robbery, looks like Trish and Tomko stole the show!

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.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

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.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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.

To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

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.

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

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.

You know how my mother and father met? In a train robbery!

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.

I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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?

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!