Thieves Quotes - Page 25

• When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sacrifice, Giving, Degrees

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• No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and indispensable necessity, like repentance, faith, and conversion. But it is impossible to say that any professing Christian is in a safe, healthy, or satisfactory condition of soul, who habitually refuses to obey Christ and attend the Lord's Table.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Men, Healthy

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.286, Whitaker House

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

  PLO Lumumba

  Tragedy, Saint

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• We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

  Jerry Brown

  Liars, Criminals, Crooks

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• Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

  James Lee Burke

  Clever, Loss, Age

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• I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Thinking, Masters

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• Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

  John William Draper

  Science, Kepler, Cost

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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

  Bill Johnson

  Perfectly Good, Water, Boat

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• The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

  George Allen

  Leadership, Sports, Men

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• He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

  William Congreve

  Honesty, Treasure, Firsts

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 3, sc. 14

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• Friends are thieves of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.349

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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, Dungeons

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

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• They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Death, Night, Hug

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

  E. B. White

  War, Lying, Men

  Common Cause: A Monthly Report of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution, Vol. I, No. 2, August 1947.

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• There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Unbearable, Unjust, Helping

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• If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

  William Saroyan

  Giving, Stealing, Ifs

  The Human Comedy ch. 4 (1943)

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• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Angel, Forgiving

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.92, Library of Alexandria

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• We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Struggle, Procrastination

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Long, Dying

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• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, Class, Important

  "Rule By Thieves: One Week in the American Kleptocracy" by John W. Whitehead, www.counterpunch.org. March 17, 2017.

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• Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kings, Loss, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1909). “Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde”

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• 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, Way, Reason Why

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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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• 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

  Differences, Stealing, Congressman

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