“ In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression. ”
- Ramman Kenoun- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal? ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ It is easier to rob a million men of a dollar each than to rob one man of a million. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
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“ The real reason why Robin Hood robbed only the rich was that the poor had no money. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
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“ Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms isn't spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of their scientists, the hopes of its children… This is not a way of life at all in any true sense… ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ We hope that this signature will bring to Afghanistan the stability and peace that we needed for so many years. We also hope that the cooperation between the Afghan state and the international security force and the United Nations will bring to an absolute end the presence of terrorism and banditry in Afghanistan. ”
- Hamid Karzai- Copy
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“ There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost — the most legitimate — passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ”
- Johnny Carson- Copy
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“ A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
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“ Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. ”
- Doug Horton- Copy
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“ Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. ”
- Remy de Gourmont- Copy
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