Chance The Rapper

I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.

American Musician

John Kennedy

Beto's copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington... they would be happy to confiscate America's guns. And if you don't believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

American Lawyer

Hunter Tylo

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.

American Actress

Peter Schiff

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

American Businessman

David Suzuki

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

Canadian Scientist

John Malkovich

I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.

American Actor

Richard Parks Bland

I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe.

American Politician

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

American Economist

John Maynard Keynes

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

English Economist

Zebulon Pike

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

American Soldier

Only people with official authority, like the police, can confiscate items, not ordinary people.

Authority Action

Confiscation often suggests that a rule or law was broken, leading to this action.

Penalty Implication

'Confiscate' is not the same as borrowing; it implies the items may not be returned.

Not Borrowing

 first week on the job five confiscated cheetah cubs actually died of malnutrition in her office building five cheetahs died in here yeah that was my first week as a minister and i said why why are we why are people taking the cheaters from the wine and they said

Cracking Down on Cheetah...

 Orphans can be confiscated and given a second chance. At special forest schools, they recover from emotional trauma and continue to develop essential life skills. Against all odds, these orphans demonstrate incredible resilience and readiness to learn.

How smart are...

 a real world object in that. Here, the real world merges with the simulation. And finally, to pull out all the stops, this is a system called Urp, for urban planners, in which we give architects and urban planners back the models that we confiscated

Pointing to the future...

 some are bought by traders and tourists some were gifts exchanged in acts of friendship and some were excavated in archaeological digs but then there are many others that were looted during raids confiscated by colonial forces and

Jim Chuchu: Why are...

 There's always somebody who wants to confiscate our humanity. And there are always stories that restore it. If we live out loud, we can trounce the hatred, and expand everyone's lives. Forge meaning. Build identity.

How the worst moments in...

 wildlife trade such as force-feeding and injuries from snares a few lucky pangolins survive being trafficked confiscated pangolins in vietnam for example may be sent to a rescue center and returned to the wild

Pangolins: The Most...

 nothing to be proud of on myself no i know well it's just shows rescued and confiscated orangutans arrive at the center faster than lona can release them but at least this handful have a second chance

Incredible Orangutan...

 have captured and enslaved go free. He'll let them return to their countries. And more important, he will let them all recover the gods, the statues, the temple vessels that had been confiscated.

Neil MacGregor: 2600...

 He fled Germany, together with his family, leaving everything else behind. His department stores confiscated, he spent the rest of his life in a relentless pursuit of art and culture.

Shimon Schocken: The...

 moment documenting that was my camera in some cases a hidden camera simply by being present was the activists I too became a target of the government the police confiscated my camera

Confiscate

To officially take away someone's goods or property as a punishment, or for other official reason.

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