Theft Quotes

208 quotes by 164 authors

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B… — Ambrose Bierce
I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office… — Walter Wangerin
According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified… — Luis Gutierrez
The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that… — Vin Diesel
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. — Epictetus
A thief believes everybody steals. — E. W. Howe
Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day. — Jaron Lanier
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
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. — Imelda Marcos
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft. — Jose Marti
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost… — Marquis de Sade
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they… — John Sandford
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because… — Lysander Spooner
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. — William Weld
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. — Khaled Hosseini

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