Misappropriation Quotes

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Britain First has deeply ignoble form on trying to 'hijack' the poppy to increase their popularity and donations.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Unhampered corruption breeds more corruption.

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

The temptation to misuse public policy is almost irresistible.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

His [Prime Minister Robert Peel’s] life has been one great appropriation clause. He is a burglar of others’ intellects. There is no statesman who has committed political petty larceny on so great a scale.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Russia is corrupt, treacherous, shifty and incompetent.

Allah has cursed the one who pays bribes, the one who receives them, and the one who arranges the act between two parties.

The cohesive power of public plunder.

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

The Court is corrupt: The fields are overgrown with weeds; the granaries are empty. Yet there are those dressed in fineries, With swords at their sides: Filled with food and drink, Possessed of too much wealth. This is called "Taking the lead in robbery.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.

Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.

Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.

We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Ours is a plundering generation.