Top 316 Theft Quotes & Sayings

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

In limited professions there's boundless theft.

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

Love without sacrifice is like theft

All property is theft, except mine.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

What is government but theft by consent?

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.

Property is theft.

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft.

Unthankfulness is theft.

Where there's property, there's theft.

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

I got Twitter identity theft.

Theft of a firearm should be punished as a felony, plain and simple.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

Wage violations are tantamount to theft.

The United States was founded on the triple sin of slavery, genocide, and land theft.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you?

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Art theft gave a guy an appetite.

The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

All art is theft.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and grand children, of their right to a livable future. It's a justice issue, because its victims are, and will be, disproportionately poor and of color, those least able to contend with or to flee, the storms, droughts, famines, and rising tides of global warming.

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

Not valuing wealth prevents theft.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.