quotes about Theft
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
-- Aristophanes -
Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.
-- George Carlin -
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A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves
-- James Lee Burke -
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 MalcolmSource : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.343, Macmillan
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They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.
-- John SandfordSource : "In 'Mad River,' A Friendly Cop Tackles Rural Crime". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, krvs.org. September 23, 2012.
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To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
-- Jose Marti -
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
-- Karel Capek -
When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.
-- Leslie JamisonSource : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.20, Granta Books
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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 -
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
-- Nolan Bushnell -
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
-- Paul Eldridge -
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Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance.
-- Paul ErdosSource : "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth". Book by Paul Hoffman, 1998.
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If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.
-- Walter Wykes -
That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.
-- Rich Fulcher