Quotes About Plagiarism

The truth is that... if you put any idea out there that's kind of flashy, you have many, many people that are going to be copying it. This happens whether you do movies, paintings or music.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism.

God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them. God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.

Waarom? Omdat god de plagiaris liefheeft. Niet voor niets staat geschreven: 'En God schiep de mens naar Zijn beeld; naar het beeld van God schiep Hij hem.' God is de eerste aller plagiarissen. [...] Dus als wij plagiaat plegen, scheppen wij in feite 'naar het beeld van' en dragen we bij aan de vervolmaking van de schepping.

In literary practices the idea of a single subject is also all-powerful. It is uncommon for books to be signed. The concept of plagiarism does not exist: it has been established that all works are the creation of one author, who is atemporal and anonymous. The critics often invent authors: they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute them to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres...

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Don't let someone stealing your quotes !

Lord Snow says that every man may be permitted his own clichés. But this is not enough. He must invent his own clichés and then persist in them until, if other people use them, their source is instantly recognizable. Thus plagiarism shall be turned into homage.

Steal from one man, it's plagiarism. Steal from a thousand men, it's research.

It is plagiarism when you take something out of a book and use it as your own. If you take it out of several books then it is research.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.

There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the 'Foreigner Suite,' it is!

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Bei einem Dichter klauen ist Diebstahl, bei vielen Dichtern klauen ist Recherche

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

fake forgery?

I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

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The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Confound those who have said our remarks before us.