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Quotes About Theft

I need no alibi, I did steal your heart.
~ Sapphire Belucci
But I couldn't think it more hateful of them to have taken my fur tippet. Burglars never seem to realize one might feel the cold. How would they like it if I took away their wife's shawl?
~ Nancy Mitford
We must always remember that the fossil fuel era began in violent kleptocracy, with those two foundational thefts of stolen people and stolen land that kick-started a new age of seemingly endless expansion. The route to renewal runs through reckoning and repair: reckoning with our past and repairing relationships with the people who paid the steepest price of the first industrial revolution.
~ Naomi Klein
Did he think Brendan planned to snatch the laptop and throw it down a crevasse in a glacier?
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Es mucho mejor que nos quiten los beneficios de nuestro bolsillo a que nos roben las riquezas de nuestra mente y nuestra alma
~ Carson McCullers
to serve God means to act with justice. One cannot pray and offer sacrifice while ignoring the poor, the beggars at the gates. But more radical still: if you have more than you need, you are a thief, for what you "own" is stolen from those who do not have enough. You are a murderer, who lives on the abundance that has been taken from the mouths of the starving.
~ Thomas Cahill
If one tallied all of the losses suffered by victims of robberies, burglaries, larcenies, and motor vehicle thefts combined, the figure wouldn't even approach what is taken from hardworking Americans' pockets by employers who violate the nation's labor laws.
~ Kathryn Edin
I have yet to meet a man who can quench my thirst. I'm looking for a man as strong as I am, stronger than meat, than liquor, a man brave as a frightened mother, with a heart hard as a tooth. The hearts of men are too easily stolen, they are not vigilant in guarding the gates of their ribs and my thieving fingers can always reach beneath the sternum and snatch it." "What do you do with their hearts?" "I eat them.
~ Keith Miller
Her father did steal into my garden one night and take something dear from me," she said. "But it was something far more precious than rampion.
~ Gayle Forman
Irene had no objection to stealing a good strategy, any more than to stealing a good book.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Property is organized robbery.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Does Strawberry Shortcake know you stole her horse? She will be berry, berry angry with you." I
~ Ilona Andrews
At the zoo, people would gather around the railway to see the snakes being fed, and my brothers would walk around the group, taking from purses or bags or using a razor to cut pockets and take wallets.
~ Apollo Robbins
It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.
~ Czech Proverb
If you're going to steal a car, don't steal a mail vehicle. They don't mess around. I mean, have fun, steal all the cars you want, but don't steal a U.S. Mail vehicle.
~ Rob Huebel
I just recently had my Visa card stolen. Right now, it's everywhere I want to be.
~ Scott Wood
Just remember, stealing's punishable by death
~ Suzanne Collins
No podéis robarme el pasado. No podéis robarme mi historia.
~ Suzanne Collins
Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse
~ Steve Aylett
I consider straw man no different from theft.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Love without sacrifice is theft (Procrustes).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The '67 model was the last good Volks—and the young men knew it. "Hepburn, they stole our fucking car." "Oh Hank, surely not!" "It's gone. It was sitting there." I pointed. "Now it's gone." "Hank, what will we do?" "We'll take a taxi. I really feel bad." "Why do people do that?" "They have to. It's their way out." We
~ Charles Bukowski
Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…
~ Charles Stross
Identity is theft, don't trust anyone whose state vector hasn't forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.
~ Charles Stross