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Quotes About Plagiarism

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
If you're gonna steal from somebody, why not Shakespeare?
~ Alison Sudol
With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.
~ Andrew Shaffer
As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Is a stolen copyright a copywrong?
~ Anonymous
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
~ Anonymous
Pereant qui nostra ante nos dixerunt [May they perish who have used our words before us].
~ Anonymous: Latin
If you listen to Drake's first single... he copied my whole bar word for word and my cadence and my flow from my song. Can I just get my credit?
~ Soulja Boy
I've seen a lot of people stealing from what I do. Some people show love and say thank you and tell me how I was an inspired for them.
~ Lil B
All art is theft.
~ David Shields
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
~ Beck
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
In academics, an excellent result without personal effort is a copied work
~ ETC Wanyanwu
My father used to say: If you steal from one book, you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books, you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.)
~ Amos Oz
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.') On
~ Amos Oz
Wenn Du deine Weisheiten aus einem einzigen Buch klaust, bist Du ein Plagiator. Aber wenn Du aus zehn Büchern klaust, nennt man Dich einen Gelehrten, wenn Du aus dreißig oder vierzig Büchern klaust - einen hervorragenden Gelehrten
~ Amoz Oz
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder!
~ John Dennis
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
~ Mary McCarthy
Adopt and spread a visionary thought, executes the best process; however, steal and claim that as its thinker, exhibits an utterly hideous practice.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
As a criminal law; a thief bears a penalty for its crime; conversely, a literary thief enjoys the profitability of plagiarism-crime as self-exception from its moral-corruption, and humiliation of inner voice and conscience.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Reading the scholars, philosophers, and visionary ones builds a bridge of knowledge, but stealing their ideas and thoughts creates the hell of plagiarism; it is a literary sin.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Stealing the ideas of others mirrors and certifies plagiarism.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The stolen ideas, words, and quotes do not make you a unique author. You are only a thief of the literature, and pseudo-intellectual.
~ Ehsan Sehgal