Plagiarism Quotes - Page 4

• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  James Brown

  Song, War, Rapper

  "Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, June 12, 2006.

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• Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

  Guy Debord

  Progress

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.98, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Originality, Unconscious

  Quoted in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant (1927)

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• All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

  John Ruskin

  Fall, Eye, Men

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• I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Journalism, Ecological

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.49, Vintage

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• there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Writing, Character

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• Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

  James Russell Lowell

  Garments, Borrowed, Warm

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69

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• As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Adoption, Ornaments

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.117

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• Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

  Clint Eastwood

  Hollywood

  "The Leo Tapes". Interview with Mark Harris, www.gq.com. October 8, 2011.

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• A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

  Karl Kraus

  Hundred, Made, Should

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Use, Taught

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.826

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• All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

  Jacob Braude

  Art, Dull, Speech

  Jacob M. Braude (1975). “Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers”, Prentice Hall

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• Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Art, Support

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.125

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• In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

  Andrew Mason

  Art, Competition

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• I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

  James Boswell

  Different, Three, May

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• Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

  Benjamin West

  Painter, Palette

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• Existing is plagiarism.

  Emile M. Cioran

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Difficult, Fallouts

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• Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

  Howard Dietz

  Inspirational, Music, Thinking

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• Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Powerful, People, Vision

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• When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

  Jay Kay

  Track, People, Radio

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• The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Levels, Derivatives

  "Something Borrowed". www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2004.

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• In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

  Miroslav Volf

  People, Infidelity, Different

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• Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Believe, Home, Names

  Quoted in N.Y. Tribune, 12 Apr. 1922

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• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Clever, Writing, Arrows

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