Quotation Explorer - 'Robs'

The spirit of fornication and adultery robs a man of his authority in the spiritual realm. - Sunday Adelaja
I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness. - Charles E. Coughlin
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. - Ayn Rand
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. - Yukio Mishima
Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke
Facing your fears robs them of their power. - Mark Burnett
Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death. - Shinmon Aoki
Pornography robs sex of its mystery. That's why men like it. - Marty Rubin
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic. - Andrew Rilstone
A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality. - Dennis Adonis
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love - Clive Barker
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