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[[File:Paul-Charles Chocarne-Moreau The Cunning Thief.jpg|thumbnail|Paul-Charles Chocarne-Moreau, ''The Cunning Thief'', 1931]]
[[File:Marquis de sade.jpg|thumb|Theft is only punished because it violates the right of property; but this right is itself nothing in origin but theft. ~ [[Donatien Alphonse François de Sade]]]]
[[File:W.E.B. DuBois - NARA - 559200.tif|thumb|Suppose to-day Negroes do steal; who was it that for centuries made stealing a virtue by stealing their labor? ~ [[Booker T. Washington]] and [[W. E. B. Du Bois]]]]
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==Quotes==
=== A-G ===
* The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shall not covet," and "Thou shall not steal," are not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.
**[[John Adams]], [http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/v1ch16s15.html Ch. 1 Marchamont Nedham : The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined], ''A Defence of the Constitutions of Government'' (1787). <!-- ''The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States'' vol. VI (1851) p. 9 -->
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:what they have plundered and looted.”
:* [[Amos (prophet)|Amos]], [[w:Book of Amos|Book of Amos]], 3:10 [[New International Version|NIV]]
* KLEPTOMANIAC, ''n.'' A rich thief.
** [[Ambrose Bierce]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=CboOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA213 ''The Cynic's Word Book''] (1906); republished as ''The Devil's Dictionary'' (1911)
* To live<br>On means not yours—be brave in silks and laces,<br>Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all<br>Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;<br>This is to be a trickster; and to filch<br>Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,<br>Life, daily bread;—quitting all scores with "friend,<br>You're troublesome!" <br>Why this, forgive me,<br>Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,<br>Plain folks call "Theft."
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* Diogenes ... saw the officials of a temple leading away someone who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."
** [[Diogenes of Sinope]], as reported in ''Lives of the Eminent Philosophers'', 6.45
* If your claim to fame is that you’ve taken money from other people and haven’t delivered what you promised, that doesn’t make you a genius businessman, that makes you a thief.
**{{w|Kathy Duva}}, on [[Donald Trump]]; as quoted in [http://theboxingtribune.com/2017/01/19/donald-trump-was-awful-at-boxing-too/ "Donald Trump was awful at boxing, too"] by Paul Gagno, ''The Boxing Tribune'' (January 19, 2017)
* All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?
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** [[w:Robert W. Ford|Robert W. Ford]] ''Wind Between the Worlds: Captured in Tibet'' by (1957), p. 37.
=== H-P ===
* If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
** [[w:Code of Hammurabi|Code of Hammurabi]], Theft Ex. Law #22, [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/ham/ham06.htm Internet Sacred Text Archive]]. Evinity Publishing INC. 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
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* Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.
** [[Saint Jerome]], in ''[[The Cry for Justice]]'' (1915), p. 397
* I am amazed that (as far as I know) no one has ever treated the idea of a "master-thief," an idea that certainly would lend itself very well to dramatic treatment. We cannot help noting that almost every country has had the idea of such a thief, that an ideal of a thief has hovered before all of them.... We must, of course, imagine him [the master-thief] well-equipped with a very good sense of humor, which can very well be reconciled with his discontent, which is precisely what will make him satirical and — even though he must not be thought of as always being discontented — can still be readily reconciled with his lowly origin at the grassroot level of the nation. ... I would prefer to think of such a master-thief as someone who had lost his father early in life and now has only an old mother whom he loves dearly and she him.
** [[Soren Kierkegaard]] Journals and Letters 1 A 11-16
* If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
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*Theft in [[America]] is justified because the whole country is stolen land?
:* [[w:Aaron McGruder|Aaron McGruder]], ''[[The Boondocks (comic strip)|The Boondocks]]'', (5/16/1999)
* In a petty theft you steal money and gold, but in electoral theft you steal the future of the country. The second crime can be committed by the meanest persons.
** [[w:Mehmet Murat|Mehmet Murat]]
* Should the unemployed ... do in a small way, what the rich do daily with impunity on a grand scale, should he, in fact, steal, in order to live - the [[bourgeoisie]] will heap burning coals of "moral indignation" upon his head, and, with austere visage, hand him over relentlessly in charge of the State, that in its prisons he may be fleeced the more effectively, i.e., cheaper.
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* The stinking puddle from which [[usury]], thievery and robbery arises is our lords and princes. They make all creatures their property—the fish in the water, the birds in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's [[w:Ten Commandments|commandments]] among the poor and say, "[[w:Thou shalt not steal|You shall not steal]]."
** [[Thomas Müntzer]], ''Letter to the Princes'', as cited in ''Transforming Faith Communities: A Comparative Study of Radical Christianity'', p. [http://books.google.com/books?id=6FRJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 173]
* The remaining participants in this criminal mob fled from the area in cars at high speeds
** Officials '''[https://www.npr.org/2021/11/21/1057817911/80-people-california-san-francisco-nordstrom-organized-theft 80 people stormed a California Nordstrom store and stole merchandise]''' (November 21, 2021)
*What’s the cadet motto at [[United States Military Academy|West Point]]? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the [[CIA]] director. '''We [[lying|lied]], we [[Cheating|cheated]], we stole.''' It’s — it was like — we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment. — Texas A&M University (April 15, 2019)
**[https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-21/i-was-cia-director-we-lied-we-cheated-we-stole ''I Was The CIA Director - We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole, ZeroHedge'',Tyler Durden Sun,] (21 April 2019)
* ''La propriété, c'est le vol!''
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*** [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], ''What is Property?'' (1840)
=== Q-Z ===
* The male thief, and the female thief, you shall mark, cut, or cut-off their hands/means as a recompense for what they earned, and to serve as a deterrent from God. God is Noble, Wise. Whoever repents after his wrongdoing and makes amends, then God will relent on him. Truly, God is Forgiving, Merciful.
** [[Quran]], Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:38-39
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* The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction<br>Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,<br>And her pale fire she snatches from the sun:<br>The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves<br>The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief,<br>That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen<br>From general excrement: each thing's a thief;<br>The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power<br>Have uncheck'd theft.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Timon of Athens]]'' (date uncertain, published 1623), Act IV, scene 3, line 439.
*Stealing of course is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances.
**[[w:Lemony Snicket|Lemony Snicket]] in "The Wide Window"
*The Islamic historian [[Ibn Khaldūn]] says that looting is morally preferable to entrepreneurship or trade. Why? Because looting is more manly. In looting, you have to beat the guy in open combat to take his stuff.
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* Suppose to-day Negroes do steal; who was it that for centuries made stealing a virtue by stealing their labor?
** [[Booker T. Washington]] and [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], ''The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development'' (1907)
*Of course clergymen and other paid teachers and moralists admonished us to be upright and unselfish, and for people with good incomes it was easy to condemn those living on the edge of poverty as inferior, impractical, shiftless, and lacking respect for the social code. It was easy to shout thief at the other fellow when you had no temptation to steal-I mean steal in a petty way. But stealing in a big way was often accepted as good business judgment.
**''[[Art Young]]: His Life and Times'' (1939)
===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===
:<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 786-87.</small>
* Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed,<br> Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;<br>'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed<br> Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.
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