Japanese-literature Quote by Eiji Yoshikawa

“It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen…

— Colson Whitehead

“What a mess this was. Robbers too stupid to ask for money, and a victim too stupid to pretend that she didn't have any.”

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel

“There were people who’d steal money from people. Fair enough. That was just theft. But there were people who, with one easy word, would…

— Terry Pratchett

“Some people just needed to be stolen from.”

— Eoin Colfer

“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski

“The poor stole what they could from the rich, and the rich stole what they could from the working poor - one act called…

— Mary Gabriel

“If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.”

— Lao Tzu

“the poor don’t have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal…

— Gary A. Haugen

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might…

— Thomas Moore

“Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.”

— Flann O'Brien

“Things like Do Not Steal were, I think, hammered into boys’ heads a good deal harder in those days than they are now. Still,…

— C.S. Lewis

“Thieves are thieves and whores are whores, they are that way for a reason. We should have compassion for them, but also boundaries.”

— VD