Robber Quotes (13 quotes)

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.”
― murray rothbard

tags: assets, force, government, governments, guns, libertarian, liberty, money, oppress, oppression, resistance, rob, robber, state, steal, stealing, tax, taxes, theft, thievery, violence, wealth

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“...He gave such a vulnerable impression. He resembled the leaf that a little boy strikes down from its branch with a stick, because its singularity makes it conspicuous.”
― Robert Walser, The Robber

tags: lish, robber, sarki

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“She was so young how could she understand… Exactly how young was she Matthew’s mouth went dry.
“Dearest how old are you ”
“Almost twenty.”
Damnation. He was a bloody cradle robber.”
― Lydia Dare, In the Heat of the Bite

tags: humor, robber, underage

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“Some people are murderers of their own gifts. They wait and see their dreams suffer from deficiency of actions. The end result is that the world is robbed as they baggage their dead dreams for the cemetery!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

tags: act, action, actions, baggage, big, big-dreams, deficiency, deficient, don-t-neglect-the-gifts, dream-big, dreams, food-for-thought, gift, gifts, israelmore-ayivor, murder, murderer, people, result, rob, robber, suffer, take-actions, talents, world

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“The robber owns riches, [the noble] is a thief.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

tags: noble, rich, robber, thief

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“Go to the bank looking like a bank robber!”
― Steven Magee

tags: bank, coronavirus, covid-19, flu, killer, like, looking, pandemic, robber

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“Of all the times - Time be the recorder,
Of all the things - Time be the robber,
Of all the sorrows - Time be the healer,
Of all the powers - Time be the taker.
[6] - 4”
― Munindra (Munnan) Misra, Eddies of Life

tags: healer, recorder, robber, taker, time

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“Until the ‘wrong belief’ leaves, we will continue to be robbed.”
― Dada Bhagwan

tags: right-belief, robber, spiritual, spiritual-quotes, wrong-belief

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“Politics is a great art. You need to know how to persuade people to pay for being robbed.”
― Andrzej Majewski, Aphorisms - quotations about: life, art, woman&man, politics and money: 64 fields

tags: art, humor, irony, politics, robber

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“Crime is everywhere,
there is no man of yesterday.
Lo, the robber everywhere,
The servant takes what he finds.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

tags: crime, robber, servant

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“The arbitrator is a robber,
The remover of need orders its creation.
The town is a floodwater,
The punisher of evil commits crimes!”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

tags: arbitrator, crime, evil, robber

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“The arbitrator is a robber,
The peacemaker makes grief,
He who should soothe makes sore.
But he who cheats diminishes justice!”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

tags: arbitrator, cheat, justice, peacemaker, robber, soothe

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