A Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre

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.

Voltairine de Cleyre

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Voltairine de Cleyre
American - Writer
November 17, 1866 - June 20, 1912

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.

Steve Jobs

I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

Arthur Darvill

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.

Erma Bombeck

If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.

William Jennings Bryan

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.

Jeff Duncan

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.

John Hawkes

Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.

Eugene V. Debs

Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.

Carl Crawford

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

Britney Spears

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

Tyler Shields

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

Benedict Cumberbatch

To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.

Thomas Buckley

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

Michael Caine

A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .