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  • I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.

    Believe   Loss   Years  
    Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.53, Random House
  • We learned this week that Mitt Romney is building a car elevator in his house. An elevator for your cars. I get the feeling this guy wants to be president so he has a place to live while he's remodeling his beach house. ... I'm not worried that this guy is out of touch. I'm worried he's Batman. I could see Mitt as Batman. He hears about a robbery, he changes into the magic underwear, he rushes to the crime scene, and he helps the crooks manage their new money.

    Beach   Car   House  
  • 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.

    Boys   Tea   Brain  
    "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.
  • 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?

  • Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.

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

    Wilkie Collins (2007). “The Moonstone”, p.124, 1st World Publishing
  • A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

    Feels   Robbery   Philip  
    Twitter post from Feb 2, 2014
  • Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

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

    Discovery   Wish   Ends  
    Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.16, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

    Real   Class   Office  
    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 1999.
  • It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.

    Book   Mean   Usury  
    Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
  • Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.

    Lonely   Children   Golf  
  • 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 (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.104, Simon and Schuster
  • Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him- His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.

    Jesus   Past   Blood  
  • All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.

    George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "Working for New Priorities". Interview with Anita Merina, NEA Today, February 2000.
  • The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery

    Soccer   Agency   Law  
  • The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

    Sweet   Flower   Pride  
    William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775
  • Hello...911? I'd like to report a robbery, looks like Trish and Tomko stole the show!

    Wwe   Looks   Hello  
  • What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in a serial murder case or robberies in a serial bank robber case - and it spatially analyzes the point pattern of incidents, and creates a probability surface from those, working from the basis of an algorithm that says people offend close to where they live, but not too close.

    People   Doe   Looks  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something that they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do.

    Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.201, Counterpoint
  • In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get letters from people in prison; they thought that I was somebody whom they could shop-talk with, and they would tell me very funny stories. I got a lot of those. Guys who were going to wind up doing 10 to 15 for bank robbery, yes, were reading my books.

    Book   Reading   People  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

    Wisdom   Taken   Justice  
    Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing
  • Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

    Funny   Humor   Doctors  
    Ivanov I
  • The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

    'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 208
  • Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery

    Saws   Robbery   Fairs  
    Iceberg Slim (2011). “Pimp: The Story of My Life”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
  • There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level.

    Lying   Men   Self  
    Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.81, Penguin
  • The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism.

    "Tradition & Revolution: Collected Writings of Troy Southgate" edited by Patrick Boch, Jacob Christiansen and John B. Morgan, UK, Arktos Media, (p. 66), 2010.
  • 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.

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