Quotes About Theft

#1. Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

S.A. Tawks

#2. How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you?

Stephenie Meyer

#3. No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.

Jeffrey Tucker

#4. It may not seem like much, but grand theft auto is still a pretty serious offense.

Elle Todd

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

Lexi Alexander

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

Epictetus

#7. Now come days of begging, days of theft. Days of riding where there rode no soul save he.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. Kayso, it turns out that driving an actual car is way harder than it is in 'Grand Theft Auto: Zombie Hooker Smackdown.

Christopher Moore

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.

Skye Warren

#11. 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

#12. Sleep is an uncompromising interruption of the theft of time from us by capitalism.

Jonathan Crary

#13. Leopold, one of the reporters who broke the Enron story, is now breaking his own story: how he got addicted to cocaine, committed grand theft, cleaned himself up and found happiness as a 'news junkie.' This scrappy memoir ... might become required reading for aspiring journalists.

Publishers Weekly

#14. To lend a book is an incitement to theft.
A Reader on Reading p. 281

Alberto Manguel

#15. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

Isabel Paterson

#16. Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

Anthony Of Padua

#17. Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

Ricky Jay

#18. By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

John Maynard Keynes

#19. Art theft gave a guy an appetite.

Gordon Korman

#20. The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

Alan King

#21. There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.
They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

Stefan Molyneux

#22. Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund - doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.

Donald Trump

#23. Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#24. 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

#25. Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.

Auberon Herbert

#26. If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

Publilius Syrus

#27. 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

#28. Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

Ken Salazar

#30. 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

#31. Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

Mark Helprin

#32. The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

Laozi

#33. 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

#34. High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.

Ruben Hinojosa

#35. We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa's sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#36. The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness,
Her soul was taken from sanity.

Roman Payne

#37. If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research

Guthrie Govan

#38. When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

Donald J. Boudreaux

#39. We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

Dave Eggers

#40. This whole country's stolen.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#41. The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

William Shakespeare

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Not valuing wealth prevents theft.

Laozi

#45. Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.

Stephen Covey

#46. No, I heard some of the staff talking. She's all bad, that one. They kicked her out of the Lollipop Guild for theft, yeah? And she did community service for bitch-slapping the Mayor of Munchkinland.
Alexander

Melodie Ramone

#47. Government income redistribution programs produce the same result as theft. In fact, that's what a thief does; he redistributes income. The difference between government and thievery is mostly a matter of legality.

Walter E. Williams

#48. It's a free country." Inmates once bought this. That's why they're inmates.

Brian Spellman

#49. T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Robert Browning

#50. Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

George W. Bush

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

St. Jerome

#52. 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

#53. Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

James P. Hoffa

#54. If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Bill Nelson

#55. According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Luis Gutierrez

#56. Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

Robert Higgs

#57. As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

Ruben Hinojosa

#58. The other, more serious problem associated with cosmetic surgery is that conventional treatments often give people a very unnatural, blank, or stretched look. Wiping all the character from a person's face is the most profound form of identity theft I can imagine.

Marie-Veronique Nadeau

#59. No man can be stolen who doesn't consent to his own theft.

Clancy Nacht

#60. I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on the trust they have stolen.

Najaf Mazari

#61. 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Nolan Bushnell

#62. Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

Newt Gingrich

#63. The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

Benjamin Tucker

#64. A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.

Ayn Rand

#65. Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.

Robertson Davies

#66. Love without sacrifice is like theft

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#67. A person who says "every person has a right to a decent education" may not actually mean "people should be robbed to support bad schools" or "all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

Jeffrey Tucker

#68. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

John Dryden

#69. Severe and terrible punishments are enacted for theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.

Thomas More

#70. Don't steal - the government hates competition!

Ron Paul

#71. What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There

George Lakoff

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

Chris Hedges

#73. SECRETS ARE LIES SHARING IS CARING PRIVACY IS THEFT

Dave Eggers

#74. 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

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

Vandana Shiva

#76. From the theft of confidential cables to 21st-century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

Hillary Clinton

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

George Carlin

#78. 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

#79. For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.

Henry Hazlitt

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

Nina Bawden

#83. Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Stefan Molyneux

#84. There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Murray Rothbard

#85. Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

Aleister Crowley

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

Voltaire

#87. Yes I pay taxes ... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Stefan Molyneux

#88. Where the heck was I while you were playing Grand Theft Cellar?

Rachel Hawkins

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

Ennio Morricone

#90. If I did sales - my technique would be to hand-seal each deal with gourmet omelets, by Jarod Kintz's secret invisible recipe that I stole.

Will Advise

#91. It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.

Doug Dorst

#92. Moreover, the way the Jackson Democrats treated the Indians was not an aberration. Rather, it was only the beginning of a long subsequent Democratic Party history of dispossession, cruelty, bigotry, and theft.

Dinesh D'Souza

#93. Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.

Jonathan Zittrain

#94. Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you're on a full tummy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#95. The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

Stephen Covey

#96. I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

William Weld

#97. Fear is a thief because fear robs you before you even begin.

Bryant McGill

#98. [Y]ou are ... entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for the dead. You avenge those lost to the world.

David Simon

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

Fred Willard

#100. Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

George Ayittey