quotations about stealing
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks! If dey's one thing I learned in ten years, listenin' to de white quality on de Pullman cars, it's dat same fact. And when I gets a chance to use it -- from stowaway to Emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!
EUGENE O'NEILL
Four Plays
I don't mind
Stealing Bread
From the mouths of decadence
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled
PEARL JAM
"Hunger Strike", Live at Checkpoint Charlie
Stolen sweets are best.
COLLEY CIBBER
The Rival Fools
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
Steal This Book
A side effect of stealing is the packaging to protect from stealing. It's costly, fills the trash and is very hard on seniors trying to get into their packages.
SOUND OFF
"Sound Off for June 19", Sun Herald, June 19, 2017
It's not stealing, it's retrieving.
MORA EARLY
Twisted Arrangement
A small theft because of hunger is in no way comparable to an act of delinquency, because the need to feed justifies the fact.
CARLO RENZI
"Theft of sausage and cheese by hungry homeless man 'not a crime'", The Guardian, May 3, 2016
All my life I tried to be an outlaw
I've tried to spit and chew and steal and rob
But I ain't no good at thievin'
So I might as well be leavin'
I think I'm off to go and get a job
FICTON FAMILY
"Just Rob Me"
Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.
GEORGE SAVILE
The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile
When we talk about theft, we really look at what we can do as a community to combat that, a lot of theft is crime of opportunity, such as car doors left unlocked, valuables are left in plain sight.
HEIDI DAVIDSON
"Crime Increasing in Colorado According to New Report", Western Slope Now, July 12, 2017
Behind the daily gunplay the cocaine and the crack
Thug season -- what's the reason for the treason?
Everybody's gotta eat, some gotta resort to thievin
Take money money make money money money.
GURU'S JAZZMATAZZ
"Lift Your Fist"
A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Outline of Sanity
Where there's property, there's theft.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The Wise Man's Fear
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry IV, Part I
It was a minor theft
So don't get upset
There's a lot more to come
JANDEK
"Don't Get Too Upset", Staring at the Cellophane
You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it's okay to steal a loaf to feed them?
A. J. DARKHOLME
Rise of the Morningstar
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.
LIAN TANNER
Museum of Thieves
Theft is taking a source wholesale, erasing the relationship between the original creator and the source, and deceptively passing yourself off as the original creator.
BRAD TROEMEL
"Catching Up With Vika Gazinskaya and Brad Troemel in the Wake of Fashion's Latest Copying Debate", Vogue, July 13, 2017