STEALING QUOTES III

quotations about stealing

For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks! If dey's one thing I learned in ten years, listenin' to de white quality on de Pullman cars, it's dat same fact. And when I gets a chance to use it -- from stowaway to Emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!

EUGENE O'NEILL

Four Plays

Tags: Eugene O'Neill


Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

Tags: Lord Byron


I don't mind
Stealing Bread
From the mouths of decadence
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled

PEARL JAM

"Hunger Strike", Live at Checkpoint Charlie


To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

ABBIE HOFFMAN

Steal This Book


Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.

GEORGE SAVILE

The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile


Stolen sweets are best.

COLLEY CIBBER

The Rival Fools

Tags: Colley Cibber


A side effect of stealing is the packaging to protect from stealing. It's costly, fills the trash and is very hard on seniors trying to get into their packages.

SOUND OFF

"Sound Off for June 19", Sun Herald, June 19, 2017


All my life I tried to be an outlaw
I've tried to spit and chew and steal and rob
But I ain't no good at thievin'
So I might as well be leavin'
I think I'm off to go and get a job

FICTON FAMILY

"Just Rob Me"


A small theft because of hunger is in no way comparable to an act of delinquency, because the need to feed justifies the fact.

CARLO RENZI

"Theft of sausage and cheese by hungry homeless man 'not a crime'", The Guardian, May 3, 2016


It's not stealing, it's retrieving.

MORA EARLY

Twisted Arrangement


When we talk about theft, we really look at what we can do as a community to combat that, a lot of theft is crime of opportunity, such as car doors left unlocked, valuables are left in plain sight.

HEIDI DAVIDSON

"Crime Increasing in Colorado According to New Report", Western Slope Now, July 12, 2017


Behind the daily gunplay the cocaine and the crack
Thug season -- what's the reason for the treason?
Everybody's gotta eat, some gotta resort to thievin
Take money money make money money money.

GURU'S JAZZMATAZZ

"Lift Your Fist"


Where there's property, there's theft.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

Tags: Ursula K. Le Guin


A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry IV, Part I


A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise.

G. K. CHESTERTON

The Outline of Sanity

Tags: G. K. Chesterton


But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.

LIAN TANNER

Museum of Thieves


Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

PATRICK ROTHFUSS

The Wise Man's Fear


Theft is taking a source wholesale, erasing the relationship between the original creator and the source, and deceptively passing yourself off as the original creator.

BRAD TROEMEL

"Catching Up With Vika Gazinskaya and Brad Troemel in the Wake of Fashion's Latest Copying Debate", Vogue, July 13, 2017


It was a minor theft
So don't get upset
There's a lot more to come

JANDEK

"Don't Get Too Upset", Staring at the Cellophane


All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Essays

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson