(416 quotes found)
“Power is every stealing from the many to the few.”
Wendell Phillips
“He who buys what he doesn't need steals from himself”
Swedish Proverb
“It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself”
Peter Ustinov
“A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.”
Joe Morgan
“Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”
Michel de Montaigne
“There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.”
Ronald Biggs
“A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.”
Yusuf Islam
“The number 1 rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.”
Jimmy Breslin
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
Bible
“Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach