Property Is Theft Quotes

#1. Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

George Carlin

#2. Property is theft!

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

Joseph Goebbels

#4. All property is theft, except mine.

Terry Pratchett

#5. But obviously if there was no concept of ownership there'd be no concept of stealing, would there? As long as there's one starving child in the world, all property is theft.

Fuminori Nakamura

#6. Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. There is another very important lesson: You must learn to be equipped to face your battles this year and be properly positioned on the wall. Pioneers will be challenged as they plow new ground, but I have new Body Armor I want to give you that will protect you in the days to come.

Bob Hartley

#8. Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

Virginia Foxx

#9. I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Abby Elliott

#10. It's grand theft auto." "No problem, I'll drive." Jack sighed. "No, let's not add manslaughter, being-slaughter, destruction of public property, and reckless endangerment to the list." He

Gini Koch

#11. Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance.

Paul Erdos

#12. Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

Dave Matthes

#13. 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 the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Thomas Aquinas

#14. Since theft is the forcible removal of somebody else's property without consent, then taxation is always, universally and forever a moral evil. Taxation

Stefan Molyneux

#15. Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

Will Durant

#16. I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.

George Bentham

#17. You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Stefan Molyneux

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

Barack Obama

#19. I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Sarah Dessen

#20. 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

#21. The idea that any of their offspring could possibly be accused of involvement in criminal activities caused deep offence, even to parents who believed that property was theft.

Amanda Craig

#22. To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good- - that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

Simone Weil

#23. Where there's property, there's theft.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#24. If one were to ask ... "What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft" ... ?

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#25. A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

James Russell Lowell

#26. The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.

Albert J. Nock

#27. PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

Ambrose Bierce

#28. in terms of sin, you're in the majors, and she hasn't even filled out her Little League paperwork yet." "I'll

Abigail Barnette

#29. If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

Boris Sidis

#30. You cannot cure racism with more racism.

Edwin A. Locke

#31. I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Howard Berman

#32. No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

Walter E. Williams

#33. The only difference between someone who folds in the face of adversity and someone who doesn't, is if the person interprets the challenges they face as either threats, or opportunities. Help

The Mindset Warrior

#34. I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn't work the way it was supposed to for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

#35. That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

Frederik Pohl

#36. There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

Steve Jobs

#37. Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State's inhabitants, or subjects.

Murray N. Rothbard

#38. Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual.

Auberon Herbert