Theft Quotes

208 quotes by 164 authors

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-â€”that it has something to do with respect for… — Simone Weil
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held… — Bertrand Russell
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding… — Alberto Manguel
Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.… — Terry Pratchett
Prayer that craves a particular commodityâ€”anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing… — Jack London
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers. — James Patterson
Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which… — Diana Gabaldon
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for… — Thomas Aquinas
Kayso, it turns out that driving an actual car is way harder than it is in 'Grand Theft Auto: Zombie Hooker Smackdown. — Christopher Moore
How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you? — Stephenie Meyer
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother. — Janet Malcolm
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves — James Lee Burke
We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers. — Deb Caletti
On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and… — Bill Hicks
She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a… — Terry Pratchett
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the… — Robert J. Sawyer
Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of… — Khaled Hosseini
The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that… — Terry Pratchett

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