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• Government income redistribution programs produce the same result as theft. In fact, that's what a thief does; he redistributes income. The difference between government and thievery is mostly a matter of legality.

  Walter E. Williams

  Differences, Government, Matter

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• 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.

  Robert Higgs

  Character, Mean, Compassion

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• Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

  Lord Byron

  Wise, Men, Thieves

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1645, Delphi Classics

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• A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

  Abigail Disney

  Pride, Loss, Jars

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.

  Stephen Covey

  Fire, Earthquakes, One Day

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.148, Mango Media Inc.

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• Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

  Frank Abagnale

  Jail, Risk, Identity

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• We're living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. Our jobs have been stolen from us and we have people that don't know what they are doing, in particular our leadership.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, People, World

  Source: time.com

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• [O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

  St. Jerome

  Results, Committed, Predecessors

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• Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.

  Rod Parsley

  Healing, Thieves, Tradition

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

  Voltaire

  Evil, Infidelity, Adultery

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2779, Delphi Classics

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• If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.

  Tony Benn

  Rights, Hands, Years

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons during a debate on the Treaty of Maastricht, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 20, 1991.

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• By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Men, People

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• I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Europe, Shapes

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• I am always looking for ways our government can help make everyday life easier for Ontarians, and these new polymer birth certificates do just that. Having a safe and durable birth certificate will provide more security and help protect people from fraud and identify theft.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Government, People, Everyday

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

  Monica Lewinsky

  Self, Identity, Way

  "Miss Monica Lewinsky" by Chang Soon-hee, www.koreatimes.co.kr. December 11, 2014.

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• I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn't work the way it was supposed to for them.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Hate, Intellectual, Suing

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. October 2, 2010.

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• It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Play, Race

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• There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

  Ennio Morricone

  Winning, Two, Years

  "Mozart of film music". Interview With Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.

  Xi Jinping

  Government, Practice, Support

  "Does China's government hack US companies to steal secrets?" by Mark Ward, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Pride

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775

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• 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."

  Alan King

  Fire, House, Lawyer

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Mean, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

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• The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

  Laozi

  Order, Law, Violence

  Laozi, Henri Borel, Kang-hu Kiang (1939). “Laotzu's Tao and wu-wei: A new translation by Bhikshu Wai-tao and Dwight Goddard. Interpretive essays by Henri Borel. Outline of Taoist philosophy and religion by Dr. Kiang Kang-hu”

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• The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thieves, Want

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.19, Bantam

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

  Juvenal

  Imperfection, Failing

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