Theft Quotes
208 quotes by 166 authors
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The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a…
— Frank Abagnale
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Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
— Erma Bombeck
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
— Nolan Bushnell
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply…
— Karel Capek
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
— Ian Anderson
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Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.
— George Carlin
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It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.
— Francis of Assisi
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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
— Juvenal
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
— Joe Garagiola
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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
— Bertrand Russell
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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore…
— Murray Rothbard
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Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do…
— Walter E. Williams
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Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it…
— Tom Robbins
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Unthankfulness is theft.
— Martin Luther
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Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government…
— Walter E. Williams
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It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except…
— F. A. Harper
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