Quotes About Theft

It takes years to learn how to steal, to use the cover of night. It's not easy. You have to practice it. And you need someone who knows what they're doing to teach you. You've got to be aware of everything at once. And you always have to be careful about making noise. You've got to learn to move without noise.

He'd first make sure the guests were asleep by listening at the window. When he was satisfied, he'd open the door, enter quickly, get down to the ground, and wait, making certain the guests weren't disturbed. Then he'd crawl across the floor, as Mike had taught him, and find the wallets, cash, and watches using a penlight to see.

It's an easy thing to steal, any jerk could do it, but to steal and not get caught, ever, that's something else. That's something you have to train for. And to learn it properly takes years," Richard later said.

Yes indeed, I thought, a neat piece of theatre. I was going to enjoy putting these people away. You can sometimes forgive a man who works a line, but not the ones who prey on the grief and suffering of others. That was like stealing the cushions off a pair of crutches.

The thing is that any sophistication I have, aesthetically, comes from 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar.' In the '60s, I never missed an issue, even if I had to steal to get them.

If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.

By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.

a "marketing psychologist" and who advised Chip, now, to wake up and do the same), he returned to his car and discovered that each of his plastic-wrapped cheeses was protected by its own antitheft badge and that, indeed, a fragment of antitheft badge had stuck to the bottom of his left shoe. Tilton

People steal elephants. It happens all the time.

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

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

la propriété, c'est le vol!

Mülkiyet h?rs?zl?kt?r.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

For he who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power, and he who takes up a greater amount; not having deposited it, is wholly unjust.

You're just jealous," I said. "You can believe what you want," Aaron said. "But somebody's stealing from the Grimm Collection. They're either taking the objects or somehow sucking out their magic. Doc and theh librarians are going to find out who, and if Marc is in on it, you're going to be sorry you were helping him." "Marc isn't in on it. And I love this place too! We're all on the same side!" "I hope that's true," Aaron said.

and I immediately felt guilty, while at the same time determined not to have something stolen from me... these two feelings, always coming in a pair...

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

I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.

Queen of England is coming for a visit, and they take a look and find out it's been replaced by a cheap plastic replica. The thief was never found.

Jenny gaped at the rather comic spectacle, unable to believe her own eyes until Friar Gregory was so close she could actually see the stricken expression on his face. Rounding on her husband, sputtering in her furious indignation, she burst out, You—you madman! You've stolen a priest this time! You've actually done it! You've stolen a priest right out of a holy priory!