#thieves

In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and Roland had as much to do with the majority of medieval knights as the historical Jesus with the temporal riches and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, or any church for that matter. Generally accompanied by their immoral entourage or servants, priests, and whores, they went from tourney to tourney like a touring rock and roll band, sports team, or gang of South Sea pirates. Court to court, skirmish to skirmish, rape to rape. Fighting as the noble's substitution for work. ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#brigands #catholic-church #charlemagne #chivalry #highwaymen

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#looters #looting #mercenaries #theft #thieves

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#banker #bus #containing #crime #fare

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#chief #forward #him #must #party

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#favorite #gypsies #my own #own #personal

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! ↗

— Al Lewis

#call #empty #hey #housing #i

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#crucify #fear #future #many #ourselves

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#stealing #thieves #warning #sin

The great thieves lead away the little thief. ↗

— Diogenes

#great #lead #little #thief #thieves

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #cowardly #fight #own #quarrel