#robber

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. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#even #family #grudges #italy #killers

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#absolutely #collecting #legalized #more #necessary

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

— John White Geary

#daily #filled #mere #occurrence #plunder

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?' ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#big #boy #chris #city #cops

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#bad #bad character #blog #character #fully

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#city #corruption #county #debt #government

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#alter #called #carried #does #government

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#bank #because #block #blocking #closing

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#banks #because #been #fbi #long

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ↗

— Saint Augustine

#absence #justice #organized #robbery #sovereignty