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As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
The instinct of the thief is most strongly marked in the Skua tribe, and I am afraid that the mere love of thieving alone actuates them on many occasions.
I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll ... !
Where's the sense in stealing, without the grace to be it?
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.
We're living in a den of thieves
Theft is a fundamental of devilry, beach rat.
Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!
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.
Plunder has matured into habit and addiction; the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline.
What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers
shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Everybody steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal
I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.
Many thieves. One Greywaren.
Art thieves steal more than beautiful objects; they steal memories and identities. They steal history.
I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
Man does not steal, he conquers
I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.
Plunder, ravage and kill; the secret works of the repugnant. Since the fall of man and brother killing brother, evil has owned the night.
Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.
One should steal only where one cannot rob.
The opportunity makes the thief.
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.
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
Property is theft!
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
It is opportunity that makes the thief.
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
When Everything you've had is stolen from you, all you have left is REVENGE
One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears ... Are these not robbers?
Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.
You can't steal from thieves.
One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.
Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.
These poor, rich men who, seeing that you can't be caught, attempt to buy a thing they know cannot be bought.
Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Behind every fortune lies a great crime.
Guilt is to your health as a thief is to your wealth.
Honestly, I love stealing things.
When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.
I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.
Well, it is my soul that's been stolen ... and my heart.
You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!
robbing banks and killing people in the
a criminal misuse of the gift of fire.'
Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.
Stealing is wrong Billy
Stealing is the worst kind of cheating. It's cheating at life, son. It's for folk that arenae any good at life, so they have to cheat.
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
If there is something to steal, I steal it.
to do with thieves. I don't know, the boy said. They killed the thief
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.
One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One's own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental (nimit) in that. Really, the account is one's own.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
Everyone steals from something or someone.
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
Look under your bed and you will know the greatest thief in your room.
When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it
without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud
to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.
I've definitely stolen a lot of things.
Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.
transgressions one
There is no greater crime than desire.
What do you steal?" "Pride," the man said, leaning forward. "And occasionally boredom,
The plain fact is that humans, one and all, are merely thieves at heart.
It is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids;
For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity.
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.
Secrets and Malice
How did people steal before computers? - Dogbert
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.
And eaten their dinners.
But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.
You call it getting robbed, I call it food delivery.
I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.
With impunity the thief will steal until his thieves' hand isn't cut.
A proper thief is like a proper poison, merchling. He leaves no trace.
Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave.
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
You must be the most beautiful and sophisticated thief I have ever met. Secretly you stole my heart without my knowledge.
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.
Does that mean you're a thief too?'
'Yep.'
'What did you steal?'
For a moment, she thought he wasn't going to answer. Then he said, 'Myself.
Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
Opportunity makes a thief.
If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
I had to steal to survive.