Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Darren Shan

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

Bob Dylan

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

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.

Aristotle

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Ben Kingsley

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

Ally Carter

Time, the greatest thief of all.

Daniel Defoe

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Clive Barker

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Martin Gleeson

Whether this confrontation was in any way related to youth gangs is something that is still under investigation.

Charles Koppelman

We grew up watching gangster movies. We wanted to make a film that people would quote to each other like 'Diner' and 'Godfather,'

Tone Loc

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Jane Goodall

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Adrian Leppard

We hope to jog people's memories - did they see anything last week, and did the gang test their plan and the route they used in the weeks running up to the robbery?

David Conley

There are a lot of gangs now in the county. You can tell them by their clothing, and by tattoos.

Tony Sirico

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Jack Ford

I don't think it was race relations at all. It was some gang members who had real or imagined grievances and took it as an opportunity to speak in their own way over the march, in their park, their area,