Neil Young Quotes

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

If this be true, General Pinckney has kept them all for himself and cheated me out of my two.

Getting an advantage at the expense of somebody else—that really is what graft is.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

… these English masters who, after placing me in a position which forced me to get down on my knees and elbows to eat, are now depriving me of food and light and giving me chains and a Bible. I am not complaining of the penalties which my masters inflict on me -- it is my job to suffer -- but I insist that I have the right to inform the world of the treatment to which I am subjected

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference.

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

I did abuse the game a bit because I didn't give it the respect sometimes.

I don't like a cheater.

I'm not gonna waste my money watching two cheaters fight. Why would I? They're cheaters, in the end. That's basically all they are. They should get nothing.

Every time I see corruption, it pains me.

I hate when people cheat.

I never thought I was cut out for a life of crime. I even felt guilty when I accidentally stole a Subbuteo catalogue, thinking it was free. But everyone has an inner rebel, and mine has finally found a natural outlet. My crime of choice is that, with a heart as cold as ice and no care for what society thinks, I steal wireless computer network time.

I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.