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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 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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* 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''===
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