Quotes about Larceny

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Vladimir Putin

Thieves must sit in prison.

Aaron Neville

Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.

William Jennings Bryan

If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands, we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money, you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty, you will be sent to the White House.

Dmitri Alperovitch

The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.

John T. Flynn

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells

James M. Cain

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

Rafael Palmeiro

I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.

Terence Winter

We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody's got a little larceny in their soul.

Diogenes

The great thieves are leading away the little thief.

In the quoted passage, it describes Diogenes as observing a thief being arrested in one of the religious temples by the officials of the temple. He had pilfered one of the temple treasures. Not unlike modern times, most religious organizations raised money be getting donations from the public. Some of the means of many of the religious groups are and have been of dubious morality and if used in commerce would generally be considered fraud. This quotation shows that this is not a new phenomenon nor was it limited to monotheistic religions.

Charles Krauthammer

If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'

Hiro Murai

I've never been robbed in person, but I've gotten my car broken into a couple of times.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.