Robbers Quotes

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.'

Those who are acquainted with the history of the world are not ignorant that polygamy has always been the general rule and monogamy the exception. Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout all Christendom, and which has been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. Polygamy did not have its origin with Joseph Smith, but it existed from the beginning. So far as I am concerned as an individual, I did not ask for it; I never desired it; and if I ever had a trial of my faith in the world, it was when Joseph Smith revealed that doctrine to me; and I had to pray incessantly and exercise faith before the Lord until He revealed to me the truth, and I was satisfied.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

… the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers.

You have seen for a long time the great disorder in the world caused by these crimes. It is so bad in some of your provinces, I am told, and you are so weak in the administration of justice, that one can hardly go along the road by day or night without being attacked by robbers; and whether at home or abroad one is in danger of being despoiled either by force or fraud.

It's always fun to play cops and robbers.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Every nation is a band of robbers, who prey without restraint, or remorse, on their neighbors.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Rulers who prefer popular opinion to truth have as much power as robbers in the desert.

I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber.

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.