Theft Quotes · Page 7

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

— Anonymous

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

— Anonymous

Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law…

— Jacob Zuma

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing…

— Louis Pasteur

I get super paranoid whenever I walk into a store with something that they sell there...

— Anonymous

If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research

— Guthrie Govan

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

— George Bernard Shaw

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

— Howard Berman

“For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs…

— Henry Hazlitt

Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard…

— Robertson Davies

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only…

— Benigno Aquino III

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion,…

— Ron Lewis

I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out…

— Gregory Palamas

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion…

— Stefan Molyneux

Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is…

— Anne Sexton

A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail…

— Anonymous

If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away.…

— Tony Benn

“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of…

— George Reisman

The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,…

— William Shakespeare

“ I’m sorry , the message said. The theft was a violation of privacy. It was an unbelievable act of impudence and…

— Thea Harrison

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply…

— Aristotle

“We have got into the habit of admiring colossal bandits, whose opulence is revered by the entire world, yet whose existence, once…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Modern authoritarianism, as it's growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power…

— David Frum

I shouldn't have driven home from the bar last night...especially since I walked there.

— Anonymous

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are ‘acceptable crimes’ when used for the animal cause,

— Alex Pacheco

“A lie is an act of theft. It steals people's faith and makes them resent themselves”

— James Lee Burke

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

— William Weld

“It may not seem like much, but grand theft auto is still a pretty serious offense.”

— Elle Todd

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

— St. Jerome

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

— Melissa Bean

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

— Will Durant

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

— Lexi Alexander

“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281”

— Alberto Manguel

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”

— Ludwig von Mises

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

— Donald J. Boudreaux

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

— Patrick Leahy

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

— Chris Hedges

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

— Leslie Jamison