Theft Quotes · Page 6

It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.

— Walter Wykes

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

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

— Alberto Manguel

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

— Lexi Alexander

[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

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

— Donald J. Boudreaux

I am always looking for ways our government can help make everyday life easier for Ontarians, and these new polymer birth certificates…

— Kathleen Wynne

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their…

— Robert Higgs

Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only…

— Rashida Tlaib

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind,…

— Gautama Buddha

The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly…

— Paul Craig Roberts

The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It…

— Albert J. Nock

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men…

— Lord Byron

Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we…

— Fred Small

“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is…

— G.K. Chesterton

The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust…

— Jack London

“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is…

— Hannah Arendt

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not…

— Austin Kleon

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone…

— Thomas Sowell

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a…

— Alfred Bester

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud,…

— Robert Nozick

“He was walking around in circles, the smell of the old furniture suddenly very distinct. There was a newspaper in his hand…

— Peter Ackroyd

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

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“assault. Trying to draw out information a person wants to keep carries the energy of theft.”

— Sharon Strand Ellison

I hate a liar more than a thief. A thief is only after my belongings and a liar is after my reality

— Curtis Mayne

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

— Paul Erdos

“All of humanity's crimes,' Salvador said... 'are only degrees of theft.”

— Miguel Syjuco

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

— Samuel Johnson

“A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody”

— Pablo Picasso

“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.”

— Robert Higgs

Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you…

— Anthony of Padua

Kayso, it turns out that driving an actual car is way harder than it is in 'Grand Theft Auto: Zombie Hooker Smackdown.

— Christopher Moore

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

— Imelda Marcos

“What should I take? Something that will not be missed. In the wood at midnight, a magic flower.”

— Margaret Atwood

Whoever stole my copy of Microsoft Office...I will find you. You have my Word.

— Anonymous