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

  William Weld

  Thinking, Government, Taxation

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

  Howard Berman

  Government, Essence, Intellectual

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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

  One Day, Seems, Ifs

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• Love without sacrifice is like theft

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  True Love, Sacrifice, Marriage Advice

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Aug 21, 2010

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• There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

  Walter E. Williams

  Office, Giving, Liberty

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• In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

  Simone Weil

  God, Views, Giving

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• It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft."

  F. A. Harper

  Liberty, Purpose, Use

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• It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

  Marquis de Sade

  Government, Skills, Answers

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

  Nina Bawden

  Writing, Thieves, Tools

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• 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

  Giving, Religion, Liberty

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

  John Dryden

  Victory, Would Be, Poet

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Ben Jonson

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• Those who are in Christ are on the winning side. Part of what must happen during this period of great harvest for the kingdom of God is a massive wealth transfer. It is not going to happen by theft or governmental policy. It is going to happen supernaturally. Those invested in God’s market are going to reap a windfall. Make up your mind now to buy in.

  E.W. Jackson

  Winning, Mind, Kingdoms

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

  Christopher Moore

  Car, Zombie, Way

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• Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which ye call me names, insult my manhood, kick me in the ballocks and claw my face. Then I beat you half to death and tell ye all the most humiliating things have ever happened to me, and ye say ye love me." He laid his head on his knees and laughed some more. Finally he rose and held out a hand to me, wiping his eyes with the other. "You're no verra sensible, Sassenach, but I like ye fine. Let's go.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Hands, Names

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.320, Dell

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• [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.

  David Graeber

  Facts, Embarrassing, Form

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• We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Identity, Cards

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Hero, Daddy

  "Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eight, Tea, Pillars

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• Art theft gave a guy an appetite.

  Gordon Korman

  Art, Guy, Appetite

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.82, Scholastic Inc.

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• You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Moving, Eye, Axes

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

  Thomas Aquinas

  Support, Needs, Use

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)”, p.1475, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Grand Theft Auto, Wells

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• Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Jealousy, Lying, Volcanoes

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• 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

  Giving, Saint, Would Be

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