best quotations about
Stealing |
13 quotes | Visits: 2,918 |
Quotations
Politics is a great art. It convinces people to pay for what has been stolen from them. — Andrzej Majewski, 1966-, Polish author of maxims 30 likes | |
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 14 likes | |
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 12 likes | |
The Thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a Thief. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 10 likes | |
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 6 likes | |
How right the Ancients were who had the same god for the merchants and the thieves. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer (Mercury) 4 likes | |
Property is theft! — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865, French anarchist 3 likes | |
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 2 likes | |
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes | |
The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who wants to take another person’s goods, but the one who defends his own. | |
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have. |
Proverbs
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. 8 likes | |
He who steals an egg will steal an ox. 7 likes |