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Call them robbers and cutthroats
were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill their bellies? Something was out of joint in a world that drove these men to steal.
I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
Cutting people. Those women were
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
Smoking marijuana - or most everybody who smokes marijuana deals it in small amounts to their friends, innocently enough. I think it's innocently enough.
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.
When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it.
taking unfair advantage of folks of good will and had become
It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.
Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share,
Going to work so as to forget that there was nothing worth working for
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Guilt is to your health as a thief is to your wealth.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Even in prosperous times the living robbed the dead
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
He who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others;
Unthankfulness is theft.
Everybody steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal
Canoodling, I see.
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.
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
I like playing thieves.
People convince themselves that they have been robbed when they have not, in fact, been robbed. Such thinking comes from a wretched allegiance to the notion of scarcity - from the belief that the world is a place of dearth, and that there will never be enough of anything to go around.
I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.
frittering our money away on extravagant trips
A pauper in the midst of wealth.
Owning is owing, having is hoarding.
I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.
Oppurtunity Makes the Thief
A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice.
When Everything you've had is stolen from you, all you have left is REVENGE
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
The opportunity makes the thief.
I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll ... !
He who hoards much loses much.
What do you steal?" "Pride," the man said, leaning forward. "And occasionally boredom,
sucking on a football.
I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
Daughter stealer.
working slowly, destroying the mind, stealing a lifetime of memories, and robbing a person's dignity and identity, in the end leaving them silent.
Plundering and stealing, cheating and lying, laboring, fighting and loving; taking all we could and returning little, we went our careless and irresponsible ways, with laughter in our hearts and sneers on our lips - as anti-social as hyenas who howled at the changes in the weather.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
It is opportunity that makes the thief.
Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret.
Stealing is the worst kind of cheating. It's cheating at life, son. It's for folk that arenae any good at life, so they have to cheat.
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.
To getting laid and fighting fires.
I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.
When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.
We're living in a den of thieves
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents
With affluence come the debased gifts born of abuse, misuse, and overuse.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Making love with his ego.
I whoop people for truckloads of cash
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
When much is taken, something is returned.
If you don't get caught, you deserve everything you steal.
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.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.
It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is run like hell.
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.
I am stealing more and more money. I keep it in my top drawer beneath my underwear, along with my diaphragm and lipstick and switchblade - these are things a woman needs
Aboot the gold Syvertsen stole
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
At home there tarries like a lurking snake,
Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled,
A wily watcher, passionate to slake,
In blood, resentment for a murdered child.
If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
Occult Theft,
Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,
corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists
People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity
Never pay for what you steal
the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal - so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person.
Stealers, keepers.
Plunder, ravage and kill; the secret works of the repugnant. Since the fall of man and brother killing brother, evil has owned the night.
Age is a terrible thief.
Everyone steals from something or someone.
Steal from those beneath you; attack those above you.
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry
Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.
The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
Sometimes a proper thief doesn't just take. He leaves something behind.
Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.