Top 36 Quotes About Stealing From The Poor
#1. I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
Marty Meehan
#2. There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor. It's hard enough as it is. We sure as hell don't need to make it even harder on each other.
J.D. Vance
#3. Wasting food is like stealing from the poor.
Pope Francis
#4. Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
Jim Stovall
#5. It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box
George Orwell
#6. There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
Jo Walton
#7. Although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
Anais Nin
#8. I'm just wondering how exactly I went from being the Spider to the Robin fucking Hood of the greater Ashland area ... Instead of stealing from the rich, I'm stabbing them to death for the poor.
Jennifer Estep
#9. Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.
Richard Hamming
#10. Youll never find your happiness in other people, places, money, possessions. It can only be found within a spiritual awaking deep in your soul!
Timothy Pina
#11. It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#13. That sort doesn't like to admit she's been reduced to stealing food, thought the cook. Poor soul! It's only a few apples. Lord, if you're watching, those apples are freely given. You don't hold them against her soul. (The cook was in the habit of lecturing the Lord, whom she considered a colleague.)
T. Kingfisher
#14. Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.
Pope Francis
#15. She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home.
Victoria Connelly
#16. The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it's a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can't pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it's probably not good for you.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#17. You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.
Stella Adler
#18. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box
George Orwell
#19. Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
Julian Barnes
#20. Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
Oscar Wilde
#21. Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
Pope Francis
#22. But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?
Terry Pratchett
#23. The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.
Anatole France
#24. Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.
Jacqueline Carey
#25. I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.
Thomas Merton
#26. The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."
William C. Brown
#27. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.
Vikrmn
#28. Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.
George W. Bush
#29. Bren can handle it," she said finally. "And if he can't, he'll let you know. He won't let his ego choke the shit out of him.
Kit Rocha
#30. Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.
Markus Zusak
#31. Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.
Anthony Trollope
#33. There is a love like no other. A love that requires no conditions. A love that can't be explained or learned. It's a love that gives you a greater purpose. It's a love that can set the rest of your world aside.
Jennifer Lopez
#34. It's a poor artist who borrows
a good artist steals.
Pablo Picasso
#35. You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.
Mohsin Hamid
#36. I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.
Mo Ibrahim