Theft Quotes
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
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.
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.
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.
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!!".
To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
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!
We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.
'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.
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.
Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.
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.
Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.
When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.
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.
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.
On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."
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.
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.
Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
