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You can't steal from thieves.
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting -based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.
Property is theft!
Where the hell have you been?" said Meryl, when I caught up with her in the Street of Inns at about three in the morning. "Where did you get that huge bag of money?" I dumped it on the pavement, sick of hefting the weight around. "Is there a word for the exact opposite of a mugging?
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.
Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups
just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account,
Whenever human activity is directed exclusively to the service of the instinct for self-preservation it is called theft or usury, robbery or burglary etc
Behind every fortune lies a great crime.
It is opportunity that makes the thief.
It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin
I rob banks for a living. What do you do?
The opportunity makes the thief.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.
When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.
Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.
Aboot the gold Syvertsen stole
I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED,
Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.
Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.
Never pay for what you steal
I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.
I've been robbed once already. I won't let it happen again. It's only my cat they managed to kill twice. No-one will ever again steal my belongings, or my peace of mind.
Everybody steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal
head. "I don't understand." "The details are still unclear, but the probable motive is robbery.
I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll ... !
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
When robbed, the rich cry out for protection and prosecution. When stealing, they expect the judiciary to look the other way.
He robbed a bank in Wichita.
There was a time when criminals were robbing the banks. Now they're running them.
Oppurtunity Makes the Thief
If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?
(Three Penny Opera)
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it
without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud
to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.
We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.
No one likes a poor thief.
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
Some people just needed to be stolen from.
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money
Thievery is a time-honored profession, my girl. Not to be confused with these hooligans who mug people on the street, or bloodthirsty klutzes who burst into banks, guns blazing. We're discriminating. We're romantic." His voice rose in passion. "We're artists
A selfish man is a thief.
Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars.
We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.
It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is run like hell.
One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.
Best way to rob a bank is to own one.
Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for the control. The act of taking, breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance.
a criminal misuse of the gift of fire.'
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Thieves always count their change!
Love is the ultimate thief.
was being plundered
Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.
Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime
I don't steal things. I'm rich.
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
We're a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.
On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.
I found the bank robbery getaway car but was scolded over the FBI radio. Why?"
~ From Walking the Corporate Beat: Police School for Business People.
If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.
Every house I've ever robbed, every establishment, it's the same story - you identify the first line of defense and take it away. That's how you get control.
I rob banks because that's where the money is.
Everyone steals from something or someone.
People love gentle larceny.
Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.
When life robs you, sometimes, you have to rob it back.
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.
Before you rob your first bank, knock off a couple of gas stations.
Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.
Stealing to eat ain't criminal - stealing to be rich is.
Some men rob you with a six-gun
others rob you with a fountain pen.
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.