Quotes About Thievery

#1. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. Those who prosper by thievery, thuggery, or by ruining another, have chosen to live on the devil's dime.

Bailey Bristol

#3. Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.

Louis Farrakhan

#4. Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

G. Stanley Hall

#5. Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.

J.M. McDermott

#6. I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested' is legalized thievery.

Dennis Prager

#7. Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

Dennis Prager

#8. Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor. This killing isn't honest. It is thievery ... the thievery of men's lives, and no right-minded person should aspire to it.

Christopher Paolini

#9. It always seemed to me that the hacker occupied the same niche as the American cowboy in your Wild West. Gunslingers at the edge of known civilization. Black hats, white hats. Some drawn into thievery, others taking the law into their own hands - justice both corporeal and social.

Chuck Wendig

#10. That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.

Davey Havok

#11. Another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Lisa Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.

Markus Zusak

#12. What is the meaning of justice when law is used to legalize thievery and murder?

Anne-Marie O'Connor

#13. It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is run like hell.

Ari Marmell

#14. If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical.

Alexis Knapp

#15. For the living, death is thievery.

Lionel Shriver

#16. 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

#17. Besides, I did work for it. Thievery isn't easy, you know.

Marissa Meyer

#18. Thievery is a time-honored profession, my girl. Not to be confused with these hooligans who mug people on the street, or bloodthirsty klutzes who burst into banks, guns blazing. We're discriminating. We're romantic." His voice rose in passion. "We're artists

Nora Roberts

#19. There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

Michael Ondaatje

#20. No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

Barbara Kingsolver

#21. Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.

Robert Sherrill

#22. It's a small story really, about, among other things:
* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery

Markus Zusak

#23. Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

Ally Carter

#24. If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone's wallets.

Terry Pratchett

#25. The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

Terry Pratchett

#26. He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

Zhuangzi

#27. The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

Zhuangzi

#28. Our leaders know we're turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what's happened.

Matt Taibbi

#29. No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

L. Frank Baum

#30. Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from his forehead. God made this money - the fresh air, too - for his children's use. He never made the difference between poor and rich.

Rebecca Harding Davis