Theft Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Life, Flower, Injustice

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• What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

  Juvenal

  Imperfection, Failing

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Fire, Earthquakes, One Day

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.148, Mango Media Inc.

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• The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thieves, Want

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.19, Bantam

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• The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

  Laozi

  Order, Law, Violence

  Laozi, Henri Borel, Kang-hu Kiang (1939). “Laotzu's Tao and wu-wei: A new translation by Bhikshu Wai-tao and Dwight Goddard. Interpretive essays by Henri Borel. Outline of Taoist philosophy and religion by Dr. Kiang Kang-hu”

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• Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Mean, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

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• 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.

  Frank Abagnale

  Jail, Risk, Identity

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• 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.

  Ricky Jay

  Moving, Thinking, People

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, I Hate You

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• I am always looking for ways our government can help make everyday life easier for Ontarians, and these new polymer birth certificates do just that. Having a safe and durable birth certificate will provide more security and help protect people from fraud and identify theft.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Government, People, Everyday

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• Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

  Epictetus

  Character, Role Models, Follow Your Heart

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• 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.

  Jerry Rubin

  Religious, Men, Self

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Self, Identity, Way

  "Miss Monica Lewinsky" by Chang Soon-hee, www.koreatimes.co.kr. December 11, 2014.

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• I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn't work the way it was supposed to for them.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Hate, Intellectual, Suing

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Fun, Catching

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  White, Voting, Black

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

  Donald Trump

  Growing, United States, Crime

  Source: time.com

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• 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.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Men, Law

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.292

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

  Stephen Covey

  Children, School, Identity

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• Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

  Robert Higgs

  Character, Mean, Compassion

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• 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

  Differences, Government, Matter

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• It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Play, Race

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

  Rich Fulcher

  Ideas, Worried, Good Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a senator, I raised the alarm about sub prime mortgages. I fought to hold reckless manufacturers accountable for toxic toys and household products that threaten our kids. I introduced legislation to protect Americans' personal data and combat identity theft. So as president, I will make consumer protection a top priority across the entire government.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kids, Government, Data

  Source: time.com

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• Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for someone else to think of the idea. That's why you should do crossword puzzles later in the day, because other people have thought about the answers. That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it. That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.

  Rich Fulcher

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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