Words matter. These are the best Robber Quotes from famous people such as John Dillinger, John Adams, Jeff Cooper, Dan Quayle, Peter Capaldi, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it’s happened I guess I’m just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
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 was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
I don’t mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.
Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of ‘Gypsy’ and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in ‘The Robber Bridegroom.’
Redemption isn’t giving a bank robber a job as a teller.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.
You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it’s like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.
Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with – bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons – when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.
A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the ‘multiplier effect,’ it unfortunately carries more conviction.
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
