Robber Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Robber Quotes from famous persons: Lysander Spooner, Murray Rothbard, Mickey Kaus, Jeff Cooper, Martin Shkreli. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Robber Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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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.

Lysander Spooner

2

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.

Murray Rothbard

3

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

4

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.

Jeff Cooper

5

I don’t mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

Martin Shkreli

6

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

7

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

8

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.

Michael Shnayerson

9

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.

10

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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.

Osama bin Laden

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I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Charles Dickens

13

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.

14

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Napoleon Bonaparte