Theft Quotes · Page 5

“Being vegan isn't about restricting oneself in any way, it's simply about ceasing to take things which clearly are not ours.”

— Mango Wodzak

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

— Sam Harris

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

— Epictetus

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

— Kevin Bales

Don't steal, don't lie and don't cheat. The government hates competition

— Nishan Panwar

“There is only one sin , only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft”

— Khaled Hosseini

The name of eform simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars.”

— Truman Capote

“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million…

— John Maynard Keynes

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of…

— Abigail Disney

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and…

— Richard F. Thomas

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy…

— James P. Hoffa

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair…

— Murray Rothbard

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression,…

— Henry Hazlitt

“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights . He will claim that the state is…

— Frédéric Bastiat

It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were…

— Jasper Fforde

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's been a relief to not have to fight so hard for at least a large group of us to question the…

— Shellen Lubin

I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as…

— Ward Churchill

Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices.…

— Don Feder

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, don't sell drugs. The government hates competition.

— Hussein Nishah

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Has there been anyone who committed theft that he might further the interests of his villagers?”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

— Paul Eldridge

“Haiku: Some will steal your thoughts Right out of your mouth as you Speak them in private.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

— Jaron Lanier

If you look into the mirror, do you know the person looking back at you?

— Anonymous

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

— Donald Trump

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

— Bill Nelson

“The firm of Strange had not been built on softness; what you stole from it, you were welcome to keep.”

— Keith Roberts

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.

— Rashida Tlaib

A digital currency issued by a central bank would be a global target for cyber attacks, cyber counterfeiting, and cyber theft.

— Jerome Powell

“That's the funny thing about stealing money---it always seems to be the rich people who have the most of it.”

— Ari Marmell

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

— Barack Obama

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

— Chris Hedges

“The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.”

— Roman Payne