Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

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.

If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

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

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

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.

Self-plagiarism is style.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

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

Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.