Quotes about Theft

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft. Votes: 6

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me. Votes: 6

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Votes: 6

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. Votes: 6

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe. Votes: 6

In limited professions there's boundless theft. Votes: 4

Every true man's apparel fits your thief. Votes: 4

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy. Votes: 4

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves. Votes: 4

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here. Votes: 4

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Votes: 4

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx . Votes: 4

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. Votes: 4

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. Votes: 4

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever. Votes: 4

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same. Votes: 4

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. Votes: 4

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Votes: 4

How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you? Votes: 3

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. Votes: 3

Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. Votes: 3

If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research Votes: 3

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet. Votes: 3

Kayso, it turns out that driving an actual car is way harder than it is in 'Grand Theft Auto: Zombie Hooker Smackdown. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the aging poet to a tradition that preceded him and hopefully will outlive him as well. Votes: 3

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal. Votes: 3

Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists Votes: 3

Property is theft. Votes: 2

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year. Votes: 2

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. Votes: 2

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. Votes: 2

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken. Votes: 2

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft. Votes: 2

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. Votes: 2

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. Votes: 2

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft. Votes: 2

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. Votes: 2

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. Votes: 2

Unthankfulness is theft. Votes: 0

Not valuing wealth prevents theft. Votes: 0

Property isn't theft: it's nothing. Votes: 0

Where there's property, there's theft. Votes: 0

I got Twitter identity theft. Votes: 0

All property is theft, except mine. Votes: 0

Love without sacrifice is like theft Votes: 0

Time wasted is a theft from God. Votes: 0

Art theft gave a guy an appetite. Votes: 0

What is government but theft by consent? Votes: 0

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry. Votes: 0

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft. Votes: 0

Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft. Votes: 0

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft? Votes: 0

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder. Votes: 0

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me Votes: 0

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. Votes: 0

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. Votes: 0

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. Votes: 0

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far. Votes: 0

It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts. Votes: 0

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase. Votes: 0

Identity theft is like true love... you never think it will happen to you... Votes: 0

That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft. Votes: 0

Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated. Votes: 0

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves Votes: 0

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom. Votes: 0

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are ‘acceptable crimes’ when used for the animal cause, Votes: 0

Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance. Votes: 0

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. Votes: 0

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore. Votes: 0

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. Votes: 0

I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft. Votes: 0

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. Votes: 0

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. Votes: 0

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business. Votes: 0

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. Votes: 0

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools. Votes: 0

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors. Votes: 0

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. Votes: 0

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white. Votes: 0

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights. Votes: 0

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. Votes: 0

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. Votes: 0

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination. Votes: 0

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers. Votes: 0

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement. Votes: 0

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. Votes: 0

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property. Votes: 0

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose. Votes: 0

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious. Votes: 0

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar. Votes: 0

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are. Votes: 0

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft. Votes: 0

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us. Votes: 0

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul. Votes: 0

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day. Votes: 0

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. Votes: 0

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day. Votes: 0

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft. Votes: 0

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back. Votes: 0

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster. Votes: 0

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. Votes: 0

Who passed Wall Street deregulation that enabled the meltdown of Wall Street and the disappearance of nine million jobs, the theft of 5 million homes? Votes: 0

She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!". Votes: 0

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work. Votes: 0

It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever! Votes: 0

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud. Votes: 0

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error. Votes: 0

All money represents theft"¦ To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. Votes: 0

If you want to steal my heart, you must realize it's not a one-time heist. This theft will take every minute of the rest of your life. Votes: 0

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack. Votes: 0

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. Votes: 0

The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics. Votes: 0

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault. Votes: 0

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement. Votes: 0

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts. Votes: 0

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs. Votes: 0

The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way. Votes: 0

On scores of sites, users can upload illegal files of my books. As per 1998's toothless Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I bear the burden of discovering and reporting each theft. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft. Votes: 0

Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children. Votes: 0

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images. Votes: 0

Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We rebuilt China.The money they took out of the United States is the greatest theft in the history of our country. The money they've taken out, the jobs they've taken out, the base. Votes: 0

It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true. Votes: 0

Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass. Votes: 0

And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property. Votes: 0