Quotes with thieves

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  • John Jay Chapman A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Francis Bacon Friends are thieves of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Agatha Christie He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
    Murder for Christmas (1939)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich 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
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Pablo Casals Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Fulton Oursler Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
    Fulton Oursler
    American journalist, playwright and editor (1893 - 1952)
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  • Brent Spiner My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bud Abbott That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Seneca The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Beeban Kidron Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Aesop We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Jimmy Carter We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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