Theft Quotes
208 quotes by 164 authors
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What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?
— Juvenal
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Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on…
— Remy de Gourmont
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In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood…
— Christopher McDougall
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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
— Aaron Neville
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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental…
— Stephen Covey
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Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know…
— Frank Abagnale
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Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear…
— Ricky Jay
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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord…
— Terry Pratchett
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Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
— William Shakespeare
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I got Twitter identity theft.
— Elizabeth Banks
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Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand…
— Horace
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In limited professions there's boundless theft.
— William Shakespeare
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T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
— Robert Browning
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Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
— Ben Jonson
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Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.
— John Ruskin
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Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
— Paul Eldridge
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
— Aristophanes
Who Wrote These Theft Quotes
164 authors contributed a total of 208 Theft Quotes, led by these top contributors: