#robbery

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. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#because #could #diesel #drive #guy

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ↗

— Johnny Carson

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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. ↗

— George Washington

#bad #kind #lost #only #passes

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. ↗

— Patty Hearst

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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. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#been #boy #brains #described #i

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#citizens #freeing #illusion #nation #occupation

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#bank robbery #cover #die #easily #racing

Property is organized robbery. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#property #robbery

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. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

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