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* 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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* 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''===
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