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  • We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.

    Military   Army   Power  
  • If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself.

    Dream   Mma   Pressure  
  • Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

  • Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.

    School   Cutting   Class  
    "American Experience", www.pbs.org.
  • I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

    Action   Social   Robbing  
  • ...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

  • Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

    World   Sun   Robbing  
  • What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

  • If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

    "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
  • Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

    Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
  • Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

    Russia   Names   Humanity  
  • The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

    Israel   Years   Robbing  
    "The Fischer king" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2005.
  • A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

  • I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.

    Sun   Robbing   Food Love  
    "Daphne Oz’s cookbook aims for weekend cooking on weekdays". Interview with Lynn Elber, apnews.com. September 23, 2016.
  • They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

    Kenneth Roberts (1947). “Lydia Bailey”
  • Now the bad guy's not targeting cash. He's targeting narcotics. And he's robbing a pharmacy because that's where the narcotics are.

    Guy   Cash   Pharmacy  
  • Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

    Men   Enemy   Faces  
    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.

    People   Giving   Way  
    Haddon W. Robinson, Scott M. Gibson (2002). “Making a Difference in Preaching: Haddon Robinson on Biblical Preaching”, p.142, Baker Books
  • Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

    Fire   People   Church  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

    Children   War   Thinking  
    Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.160, SPCK
  • In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

    Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.170, Hoover Press
  • One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  • 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
  • Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.

    Land   Names   White  
    Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.99, Routledge
  • During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

    Lying   Class   Names  
  • I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

    Hate   Ideas   Robbing  
  • 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
  • Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

    Friends   Believe   Men  
    Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.359
  • Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

    Money   Loss   Men  
  • 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
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