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Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

“I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.”

Knows Doe Stars Wife Baseball Credit Cards Reports Gambling Thieves Theft Credit Card Funny Baseball

Author:Joe Garagiola

“The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.”

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Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'”

Bits Liberty Economic Taxes Concepts Fairs Economics Absurd Organized Fairness Taxation Theft

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do - redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.”

Giving Persons Doe Two Government Eye Three Sin Liberty Vision Economic Economics Thirds Property Income Budgets Betray Thieves Founders Theft Income Redistribution

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.”

Believe Soul Fear Fire Atheism Return Ultimate Rage Secure Obedience Mistaken Jewels Theft Mindless Vaults

Author:Tom Robbins

“Unthankfulness is theft.”

Gratitude Being Thankful Theft

Author:Martin Luther

“Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.”

“It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft."”

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Author:F. A. Harper

“It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.”

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Author:Marquis de Sade

“All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.”

Writing Tools Trade Thieves Theft

Author:Nina Bawden

“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.”

Giving Persons Doe Matter Religion Causes Liberty Poverty Morality Property Injustice Conservative Worthy Welfare Theft Robbery

Author:Walter E. Williams

“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”

Would Be Poet Victory Theft Monarchs Plagiarism

Author:John Dryden

“Those who are in Christ are on the winning side. Part of what must happen during this period of great harvest for the kingdom of God is a massive wealth transfer. It is not going to happen by theft or governmental policy. It is going to happen supernaturally. Those invested in God’s market are going to reap a windfall. Make up your mind now to buy in.”

Mind Happens Winning Sides Christ Wealth Policy Periods Kingdoms Massive Harvest Kingdom Of God Theft Reap Transfers Make Up Your Mind

Author:E.W. Jackson

“There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."”

Giving Use Form Liberty Office Vote Libertarian Farms Libertarianism Theft Congressman American Liberty Handouts Vote For Me

Author:Walter E. Williams

“In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.”

Giving Littles Made God Form House Views Existence Return Gold Relation Point Of View Owners Thieves Stolen Theft Burglars

Author:Simone Weil

“The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.”

Different Whole Feelings Poet Unique Stealing Torn Great Art Theft Great Artist Immature Good Art Good Artist Being Immature Mature And Immature

Author:T. S. Eliot

“This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”

Hard Age Culture Rich Century Dying Adventure Fortune Vices Extremes Golden Fascinating Freak Theft Golden Age

Book:Tiger! Tiger!

Source: Tiger! Tiger!

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”

“The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.”

Mind Body Lying Evil Hatred Abuse Murder Errors Tongue Idle Adultery Theft Slander Covetousness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.”

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Author:Alex Pacheco

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

Light Law Culture Justice Tradition Following Opposition Unjust Theft Disobedience Civil Disobedience Unjust Laws

Book:The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

Source: The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

“I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.”

Government Wish Crime Intellectual Essence Property Notes Organized Theft Intellectual Property Organized Crime

Author:Howard Berman

“A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.”

Use Plant Corporations Collections Illegal Indigenous Theft Patents

Author:Vandana Shiva

“High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.”

Roles Economic Stage Identity Rate Financial Credit Debt Active Cards Providing Imperatives Theft Credit Card Bankruptcy Credit Card Debt Identity Theft

Author:Ruben Hinojosa

“As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.”

Needs Problem Information Identity Importance Financial Theft Identity Theft

Author:Ruben Hinojosa

“A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.”

Mean Lying Liberty Theft Freedom And Liberty

Book:Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America

Source: Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America

“I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.”

Believe Political Break Violence Deserve Down And Arrangements Breaking Down Theft Intimidation

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.”

Children Identity Victim Theft Foster Children Identity Theft

Author:James Langevin

“Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time.”

Men Needs Done Individual Risk Fellows Charity Reaching Pockets Jail Fellow Man Theft Jail Time

Book:Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays

“The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?”

Ifs Should Humans Desire Sex Dog Equal Hot Theft Hot Dog

Author:John Kennedy Toole

“Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.”

Country Helping Fighting Challenges Company Products Intellectual Property Goods Regimes Currency Unfair Theft Counterfeit Intellectual Property

Author:Virginia Foxx

“It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!”

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Author:Arlene Hunt

“As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.”

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Author:Melissa Bean

“Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.”

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Author:Melissa Bean

“The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime... It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.”

Want States Hands Crime Citizens Exercise Claims Murder Lays Property Scales Aliens Organize Monopoly Theft Colossal

Author:Albert J. Nock

“What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live very high off the work, invention, and creativity of very many others. It is the Grand Larceny of our particular time in history, the Grand Larceny in which a future of freedom which could have followed the collapse of feudalism was stolen from under our noses by a new bunch of bosses doing the same old things”

Creativity Particular Capitalism Invention Bunch Corporate Noses Boss Collapse I Have Learned Stolen Theft Old Things Feudalism Same Old Thing Larceny

Book:Dear America

Source: Dear America

“Not valuing wealth prevents theft.”

Wealth Taoism Theft

Author:Laozi

“Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.”

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Author:George Ayittey

“Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children.”

Children Justice Issues Our Children Social Justice Stealing Commandments Theft

Author:Fred Small

“Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and grand children, of their right to a livable future. It's a justice issue, because its victims are, and will be, disproportionately poor and of color, those least able to contend with or to flee, the storms, droughts, famines, and rising tides of global warming.”

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Author:Fred Small

“Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.”

Ifs Doe Very Good Saint Credit Guilty Attributes Theft

Author:Anthony of Padua

“There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.”

Source: In Darkest England, and the Way Out

“At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.”

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Author:Ken Schoolland

“I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.”

“Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.”

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Author:Shintaro Ishihara

“Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.”

Play Jobs Lines Roles Fronts Identity Defense Crucial Theft Identity Theft Notary

Author:Ken Salazar

“I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.”

Want Needs Worry Identity Theft Identity Theft

Author:Jay London

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