Competing Quote by Robert Nozick

At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life…

— Ken Schoolland

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…

— Thomas Aquinas

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make…

— Michael Nesmith

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Only two kinds of people exit in this world, those who steal and those who are stolen from.

— Ciel Phantomhive

“People steal because taking something gives them something. If they’re not in it for the money, they’re in it for control. The act of…

— V.E. Schwab

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is…

— Robert Higgs

When you give to others to the degree you sacrifice yourself, you make others a thief. They are stealing from you what you need,…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

— Ann Coulter

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money…

— Thomas Sowell

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of…

— Rumi

“When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it -- without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force…

— Frédéric Bastiat