In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die. '
Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.
man. . . thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.
You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.
I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they're really clean as they're robbing your house.
If E. F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.
My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?
Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.
Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.
I rob banks because that's where the money is.
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
Now the bad guy's not targeting cash. He's targeting narcotics. And he's robbing a pharmacy because that's where the narcotics are.
No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.
Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [. . . ]
. . . [We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.