Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.
Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.
I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don't mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I mean stealing on the regular. It got really bad. It was one hundred percent an addiction.
The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.
Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.
Stealing someone's signals was a part of the game and everybody attempted to do that. We had people that always tried to steal signals.
Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.
It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.
Stealing was a rush to me, more about the feeling than the thing I was stealing.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.
Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.
When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.
Stealing is stealing. I would hope that a federal employee that engages in theft of trusting travelers would be disciplined more than with just a letter.