“The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops. And to think that good, decent, law-abiding young British and American men and women laid down their lives to liberate this thieving mob.”

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

Sunday Express, 4 May 2003

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British politician 1942

Sarah Zettel (1966) American writer

Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 19 (p. 245)

“She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.”

Neil Gaiman book Fragile Things

From Inventing Aladdin
Fragile Things (2006)

“The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”

Laozi book Tao Te Ching

Variant translation: The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 57

“On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

#75
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.”

Chuck Hagel (1946) United States Secretary of Defense

On the Iraq troop surge of 2007, Excerpts From Senate Iraq Meeting, The Bellingham Herald, 24 January 2007, 2007-01-25 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ_EXCERPTS?SITE=WABEL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT,
2007

“The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King's Bench, Den of Thieves, and the like.”

William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist

Page 96.
A Grammar of the English Language (1818)

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

Clive Barker book The Thief of Always

Source: The Thief of Always

“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

“The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.”

George Galloway (1954) British politician, broadcaster, and writer

David Usborne, " Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article312968.ece", The Independent, September 16, 2005

During a debate with Christopher Hitchens, September 14, 2005

“The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops. And to think that good, decent, law-abiding young British and American men and women laid down their lives to liberate this thieving mob.”

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