Theft Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Theft

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Love without sacrifice is like theft — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. — Howard Berman

Thieves always count their change! — Jason P. Goodman

A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done. — Robin Hobb

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year. — Ben Bernanke

PRIVACY IS THEFT — Dave Eggers

Race. Land. Ownership. Faith. Theft. Blood. And more blood. And more. And — Zadie Smith

I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft. — Monica Lewinsky

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work. — Louis Pasteur

To lend a book is an incitement to theft.
A Reader on Reading p. 281 — Alberto Manguel

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. — Nina Bawden

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs. — Theodore Sturgeon

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

All money represents theft ... To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true. — Jerry Rubin

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu

Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated. — George W. Bush

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. — Gore Vidal

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. — Publilius Syrus

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. — Vandana Shiva

Time wasted is a theft from God. — Henri Frederic Amiel

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar. — Ennio Morricone

Back when I was a kid, we had a saying, 'Unlucky at love, lucky at grand theft auto,'" Charley said. — Fred Willard

Let me ask you both something. Is there anything strange that's been going on around the inn lately? I mean besides the murder and theft. — Tim Myers

It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever! — Arlene Hunt

The man who is not permitted to own is owned. — George Santayana

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore. — Lexi Alexander

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. — Imelda Marcos

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. — Melissa Bean

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us. — Voltaire

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin. — Elena

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw

No man can be stolen who doesn't consent to his own theft. — Clancy Nacht

Art is theft. - Pablo Picasso — Anonymous

If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump. — Harlan Ellison

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools. — Stephen Covey

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day. — Dave Eggers

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase. — Laozi

Just wham-bam, let me get back to playing Grand Theft Auto, ma'am. — Tessa Bailey

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. — Chris Hedges

We must be much more angry with theft than before, and yet much kinder to thieves than before. There — G.K. Chesterton

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft. — Scott Adams

Steal from everyone and copy no one. — Charles Movalli

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white. — W.E.B. Du Bois

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. — Rose Wilder Lane

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry. — Pat Conroy

I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'
Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government, — Terry Pratchett

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne. — Kevin Bales

It was a dark story. — Joseph Conrad

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so. — Margaret Thatcher

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft? — Juvenal

Where there's property, there's theft. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Theft is a fundamental of devilry, beach rat. — Ray Litt

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn't know if this was empathy or theft. — Leslie Jamison

Every time he is unable to answer one of her questions he feels another theft of strength from his limbs. — Glenn Haybittle

To sate your need without love is theft — Robin Hobb

My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted Mormon sister, whose identity I had stolen. — Chelsea Handler

Let this single hour atone
For the theft of all of me — Sara Teasdale

There is only one sin. and that is theft ... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. — Khaled Hosseini

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft. — Jose Marti

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious. — Barack Obama

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet. — Steve Jobs

Property is theft! — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Oh my,' Myron said to Hadrian as he twisted to get a better view. 'I don't even think of horses when I look at her. — Michael J. Sullivan

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. — Robert Browning

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are. — Francis Of Assisi

It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts. — Walter Wykes

This whole country's stolen. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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 theft. — Khaled Hosseini

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs. — Saint John Chrysostom

He had a point, but I wasn't sure it was much better than Elora's. She worked more of a con job, and Oren proposed outright theft. — Amanda Hocking

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

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. — William Weld

What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There — George Lakoff

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose. — Sam Harris

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character. — Epictetus

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul. — Richard Flanagan

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft. — James Langevin

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared. — Jefferson Smith

All property is theft, except mine. — Terry Pratchett

If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research — Guthrie Govan

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves — James Lee Burke

What is government but theft by consent? — Scott Lynch

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. — Joe Garagiola

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing. — Rod Parsley

Not valuing wealth prevents theft. — Laozi

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. — Kevin Bales

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors. — St. Jerome

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx . — Joseph Goebbels

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

My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a bank. — Bill Maher

What the heart recognizes
as liberation,
the ego sees
as theft. — Ivan M. Granger

Now come days of begging, days of theft. Days of riding where there rode no soul save he. — Cormac McCarthy

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed. — Sharon Kay Penman

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here. — George Carlin

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all. — Patrick Rothfuss