Theft Quotes

“He stole the Ring,– the Lord Cardinal’s Ring!”

“Taxation is the taking of a man's property against his consent; and if you take a man's property against his consent, you are committing a robbery.”

“The state is a gang of thieves writ large.”

“Credit is the only thing that can be stolen without the owner being aware of it.”

“La propiedad privada es un robo.”

“A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang rule.”

“Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.”

“To hold a man in a state of slavery, is to be every day guilty of robbing him of his liberty, or of man-stealing.”

“The sin of slavery is the sin of theft—the theft of a man from himself.”

“He'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.”

“L'onore! Ladri!”