Karl Kraus Quotes

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

To copy is to invite disaster.

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Men who commit adultery with the wives of others, the king shall cause to be marked by punishments which cause terror, and afterwards banish.

I cheated once on a spelling test. I didn't know how to spell period. I leaned over the desk and looked at someone else's paper. I was probably ten or something like that.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.