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Thieves Quotes by Laozi
- Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and…
- Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
- Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those…
- Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
- Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.…
- The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.
More Thieves Quotes
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that… — Ambrose Bierce
- Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest… — William Blake
- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
- The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. — Jimmy Breslin
- Hunger makes a thief of any man. — Pearl S. Buck
- What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am… — Sitting Bull
- War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
- Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact… — John Cassian