Thieves Quotes

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...

The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has ”pyromania,” the thief is inflicted with ”kleptomania,” and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ”sex-addict."

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.' Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

Guilt is the thief of life.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
It will steal you blind.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

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.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.

... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

A selfish man is a thief.

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.