Edmund Burke Quotes

The back-doore robs the house.

The stores are already empty, as they were looted immediately…This was the first stage. As soon as it ended the second stage began: the looting of apartments…At first they used to come on the pretext of “searching for arms”…As time passed, there was no longer a need for formal pretext; they simply come and take not only gold, silver, jewelry, and precious stones, but also pillows and blankets, and often linens, clothing, furs, and even furniture ...

If a thief commits a theft by night, if the owner kills the thief, the thief shall be killed lawfully

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

You remember Huston's plan. I want it implemented on a thievery basis. God damn it. Blow the safe and get it.

To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

I remember, this one time, one of my best friends was living with us for a little while, this place we were renovating. We got back, we'd been cleared out. The place had been robbed. They must have backed up trucks to get the appliances. And our buddy was still sleeping.

I've been in places that have been robbed.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist.

At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?

Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into somebody else's pockets to help your fellow man in need is despicable. And, or those of us who are Christians, I'm very sure that when God gave Moses the commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal, he did not mean ...unless you get a majority vote in Congress.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.