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I've stolen a lot. Let me think about the best thing I've stolen. Stolen a lot of hearts.
They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
Some things you sentence yourself to life for.
If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave.
It's illegal, you know," he murmurs. "Stealing."
I clear my throat. "Stealing?"
"My heart. I could have you arrested."
I snort. "For that tiny thing? I'd get a misdemeanor at most.
Whenever human activity is directed exclusively to the service of the instinct for self-preservation it is called theft or usury, robbery or burglary etc
When a portion of wealth passes out of the hands of him who has acquired it, without his consent, and without compensation, to him who has not created it, whether by force or by artifice, I say that property is violated, that plunder is perpetrated.
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.
It is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids;
taking unfair advantage of folks of good will and had become
One should steal only where one cannot rob.
An odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.
I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say 'This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.'
You stole from a member of the undead
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?
Spiritually, to be a criminal is a form of suffering, so this was the last gesture of atonement needed before Shiva, lord of spiritual seekers, was satisfied that the thief deserved enlightenment.
What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
For such unjust acts of robbery lead automatically to vengeance and punishments, as Augustine's statement bears out. "Gain in the coffer," he says, "harm in the conscience." 55 No unjust gain is without most unjust harm.
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.
Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Guilt is to your health as a thief is to your wealth.
When Everything you've had is stolen from you, all you have left is REVENGE
Stealing is wrong Billy
Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
You can't steal from thieves.
I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll ... !
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
What is government but theft by consent?
The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid
what will compare with it?
Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The
There is no crime of which I cannot conceive myself guilty.
Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for the control. The act of taking, breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance.
I'm praying for a misdemeanor
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
how I may pay back others the harm they have done to me.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go
straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies.
We go after unlawful activities.
Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
The worst crime is faking it
The law you sons of bitches!
Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her reason.
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
Love is the ultimate thief.
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society,
On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.
There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
the crime as we knew it. I told them I'd send
caughtoutedness.
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is to ask if he would benefit by committing a crime. If a small burglary is likely to improve his legal position, at least temporarily, one may be sure he has been deprived of human rights.
Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
transgressions one
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
The opportunity makes the thief.
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is run like hell.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
Hunger is my crime.
At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..
If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
Court ... a place where they dispense with justice.
Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
She refuses all amorous alms, and such a refusal, to my view, justifies a theft.
A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
What is the meaning of justice when law is used to legalize thievery and murder?
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!
Besides, I did work for it. Thievery isn't easy, you know.
The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart
What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
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.
robbing banks and killing people in the
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
Theft is a fundamental of devilry, beach rat.
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.
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
Art thieves steal more than beautiful objects; they steal memories and identities. They steal history.