Quotes by Thieves Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse. Thomas More punishment thieves mean There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it. Thomas More thieves dying men 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. Thorstein Veblen escaping thieves law A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. Thomas Jefferson thieves strong men Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief. Tim O'Reilly thieves technology trying 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. Tony Bennett thieves taken people The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business Tom Waits boiler-room lame thieves To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. Ursula K. Le Guin anarchy thieves law I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one. Vincent D'Onofrio thieves masters thinking 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. Vittorio De Sica thieves film way Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty. Vladimir Putin thieves cry firsts I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. W. C. Fields thieves my-best-friend president 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. Walter E. Williams bores-you thieves way 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. Walter E. Williams thieves running father The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him. Walter E. Williams thieves stealing differences We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers? Wendy Kaminer thieves cutting hands [On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service. Whoopi Goldberg thieves want people It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. William Bolitho booty pirate thieves He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. William Congreve thieves treasure honesty Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. William Blake thieves passion people «678910111213141516»