Zitat des Tages über Raub / Robbery:
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.
But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.
Property is organized robbery.
There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.
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.
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.