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Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

Henry Grady Weaver

added by Normando
4 months ago

The street outside my window is one of a million likeminded Los Angeles streets. Taggers, homeless, families and lovers, thieves and beggars, running children and old women, churches, bars, corner stores, Spanish, Cambodian and Armenian words and accents. I want to hug my street and all within, to feel the throbbing pulse beating its steady rhythm.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
7 months ago

Like thieves in the night, the coalition just passed a disgraceful and corrupt personalized law in response to a baseless rumour about recusal. Every citizen of Israel should know – days before Passover, while cost of living is soaring, Netanyahu is once more looking out only for himself.

Yair Lapid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no Robin Hood in this, these are thieves. They are not robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. The gas station owner is the least responsible for high prices. The cost of theft gets passed on in higher prices, and when people are driving around with unsecured stolen fuel, it is a concern to anybody.

Jeff Lenard

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A kleptocracy is merely a government that is ruled by thieves.

Georgetown University

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need state and federal resources to interrupt those efforts, lord knows( the thieves) are coordinated. We need to be coordinated as well.

Libby Schaaf

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Infant formula has become a top item for thieves because it is easy to quickly resell. Increasingly, we are seeing infant formula resold online.

Jason Brewer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Now peace has come -- what people of the world wanted, 100% peace has come, there is security, thieves disappeared, not ceasefire but the war ended.

Anas Haqqani

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption.

Marvin Cooley

added by Normando
2 years ago

They say there's no honor among thieves. You would still get, I think, good leads, if [ informants ] can do State Department anonymously and they get paid anonymously, even if they're quasi state-sponsored, they might just do State Department. Because money's still king.

Chris Painter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

check this out- so many people today are trying to sell their stolen goods of reggae from their archives in memorabilia and other artifacts just as thieves do to pawn stores to fence stolen items. Be not deceived! this is how they suck the blood of the sufferers- as bob marley said.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN
3 years ago

** the reggae music industry used to say that reggae was created in 1968 with the song-do the regay-by the maytals. the industry did not know that this was wrong, so I corrected them and told them it was in 1962-created by me in trench town. since then, they began to use my 1962 date-yet they gave me no credit for telling them the truth. so, I decided to withold my crucial history. they began to follow me around -online and off- stealing and plagiarizing my works. now they are lost.I began to call them out as I see them stealing materials from my published books. they will never accept my challenges to them. they keep hiding and stealing as vampires. I have so much more history which they cannot steal and which will expose them to the light of truth, as pirates, thieves and vampires.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN
3 years ago

He has dozens of young women and men perfectly capable of carrying on his investigative work. Maybe they are less charismatic than he, but they are proof that the Russian opposition is not only virtual and cannot be silenced with the poisoning of its leader. POISONED KREMLIN CRITIC ALEXEI NAVALNY OUT OF COMA AND RESPONSIVE: GERMAN HOSPITAL Navalnys spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh and fellow team member Georgi Alburov front the Tatarstan film, and said they were followed and harassed while shooting by men who blocked their paths with quad bikes or lurked nearby. Some dramatic images along those lines appear in the film.Yarmysh talks about how Tatarstan was supposed to be one of Navalnys stops on his late summer swing through Russian regions ahead of elections. Navalny was lobbying forSmart Voting. He argued that ifhe and people like him couldnt run in elections in Russia, the next best thing wasto simply vote for a candidate who is not from the same party as President Vladimir Putin, United Russia. Navalnyfamously called it the party of crooks and thieves and wantedto chip away at its monopoly on power howeverpossible.He believes Smart Voting can eventually dislodge it from power. GERMANY SUGGESTS HALT TO RUSSIA PIPELINE PROJECT, SEEKS COOPERATION WITH NAVALNY POISONING INVESTIGATION In the documentary from Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, Navalnys team keeps up his stylistic pace with drone video of what itidentifiesas the palatial homes of the regional president and his family, punctuated withvideoof the vast collection of fancy watches from Patek Phillipe to Breguet worn byleaderRustam Minnikhanov. Even if you dont understand Russian, it is compelling TV, Zafesova said. Navalnys investigations have evolved over the years from merely facts and analysis on his blog to full-scale movies.He invented a whole new way to oppose power, a mix of media and politics which is very important in a censored media environment like Russia and fills the void of free media as well as free debate and an independent judicial system.Navalnys videos are funny, clever, precise and shocking, not just angry denunciations of the wrongdoings of government.

Anna Zafesova

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Not only because its one of very few sources of free information about corruption and the abuse of power in Putins Russia, but also because its a sign that Navalny is not just a famous media person, he has dozens of young women and men perfectly capable of carrying on his investigative work. Maybe they are less charismatic than he, but they are proof that the Russian opposition is not only virtual and cannot be silenced with the poisoning of its leader. POISONED KREMLIN CRITIC ALEXEI NAVALNY OUT OF COMA AND RESPONSIVE: GERMAN HOSPITAL Navalnys spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh and fellow team member Georgi Alburov front the Tatarstan film, and said they were followed and harassed while shooting by men who blocked their paths with quad bikes or lurked nearby. Some dramatic images along those lines appear in the film.Yarmysh talks about how Tatarstan was supposed to be one of Navalnys stops on his late summer swing through Russian regions ahead of elections. Navalny was lobbying forSmart Voting. He argued that ifhe and people like him couldnt run in elections in Russia, the next best thing wasto simply vote for a candidate who is not from the same party as President Vladimir Putin, United Russia. Navalnyfamously called it the party of crooks and thieves and wantedto chip away at its monopoly on power howeverpossible.He believes Smart Voting can eventually dislodge it from power. GERMANY SUGGESTS HALT TO RUSSIA PIPELINE PROJECT, SEEKS COOPERATION WITH NAVALNY POISONING INVESTIGATION In the documentary from Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, Navalnys team keeps up his stylistic pace with drone video of what itidentifiesas the palatial homes of the regional president and his family, punctuated withvideoof the vast collection of fancy watches from Patek Phillipe to Breguet worn byleaderRustam Minnikhanov. Even if you dont understand Russian, it is compelling TV, Zafesova said. Navalnys investigations have evolved over the years from merely facts and analysis on his blog to full-scale movies.He invented a whole new way to oppose power, a mix of media and politics which is very important in a censored media environment like Russia and fills the void of free media as well as free debate and an independent judicial system.Navalnys videos are funny, clever, precise and shocking, not just angry denunciations of the wrongdoings of government.

Anna Zafesova

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We hang little thieves, and take off our hats to great ones.

Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Yes, there are thieves and there are addicts, but there are also people struggling that just lost their job. You have to take each case individually.

Scott Wagner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They (leaders) have eaten away at the country like cancer, they are all corrupt thieves.

Abu Ali al-Majidi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We came to the streets because we can no longer bear this situation. This regime is totally corrupt, they are all thieves, they come into the government to fill their pockets, not to serve the country.

Fadi Issa

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If what happened is verified, I wouldnt even call them police officers, police officers who behave like thieves and killers will be treated like thieves and killers.

Patricia Bullrich

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Dem building church and universities, deceiving the people continually, graduating thieves and murderers, sucking the blood of the sufferers. I say, tell the people the truth. Ras cardo reasoning lyrics shared with bob marley about- babylon system.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RAS CARDO REGGAE
4 years ago

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

Howard Zinn

added by Normando
4 years ago

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Richard Armey

added by Normando
4 years ago

You've heard the President and the administration say that immigrants are thieves, that they bring in drugs, that they're responsible for lots of crime, that they're -- a crisis at our border, they're bringing in drugs and crime.

Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Somehow there is a lot of confusion. The President will say 'I will kill them all' then backtrack. So as a mayor it can be confusing what to do. we parade rapists, thieves.

Antonio Halili

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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