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Quotes About Theft

I can tell you this. Whatever is going on, it has crushed our technology. The word itself seems outdated to me, lost in space. Where is the leap of authority to our secure devices, our encryption capacities, our tweets, trolls and bots. Is everything in the datasphere subject to distortion and theft? And do we simply have to sit here and mourn our fate?
~ Don DeLillo
You got it, sis. I promise I'll adhere to your strict moral code while committing grand theft auto." Hammett
~ J.A. Konrath
Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft
~ Jack Vance
well it about these really naughty girls they made this huge girls gand they stole stuff from shopes and stuff
~ Jacqueline Wilson
According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
~ Luis Gutierrez
He is giving a show, I know, of grace, of tolerance, and my teeth clench at the calmness in his tone. He likes this image of himself, the wronged young man, stoically accepting the theft of his prize, a martyrdom for the whole camp to see.
~ Madeline Miller
Pacheco had entered her apartment with thoughts of a pleasant drink with a pretty lady. He left with Myers's courier bag and backpack and no clear idea of what to do next.
~ John Grisham
Donohue's family operated a funeral home: "We had caskets stacked up outside the funeral home. We had to have guards kept on them because people were stealing the caskets. . . . You'd equate that to grave robbing." There were soon no caskets left to steal. Louise Apuchase remembered most vividly the lack of coffins: "A neighbor boy about seven or eight died and they used to just pick you up and wrap you up in a sheet and put you in a patrol wagon.
~ John M. Barry
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves
~ James Lee Burke
A ni... so broke these days sumbody rob me they just be practicing.
~ Chris Tucker
Their ornaments of gold and silver had been seized, as had monks and nuns who could be sold as slaves
~ Unknown
when Boniface says he had also heard that the king had stolen revenues from churches and monasteries,
~ Unknown
Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists
~ John Ruskin
Yael chipped in: "He is trying to sell this artifact he stole. The people he is trying to sell it to are extremely dangerous. People who might kill him, if they need to, to get the stone." Virgil added, "Hezbollah, among others." Yael added, "And Texans.
~ John Sandford
When he's done, he turns to Holmes and says 'What does the night sky tell you, Holmes?' And Holmes says, 'That some bastard has stolen our tent!
~ John Scalzi
You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.
~ John Steinbeck
He has robbed none except officials who have stolen from the missions and the poor, and punished none except brutes who mistreat natives.
~ Unknown
I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.
~ Cory Monteith
All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
~ Michael Caine
A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.
~ Chinua Achebe
Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.
~ Unknown
Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.
~ Unknown
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
~ Rodney Dangerfield