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A Quote by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce on opportunity, theft, and wealth

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity. Source:  The...

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A Quote by Bertrand Arthur William Russell on honesty and theft

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. Source:  Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, New York and London, 1919,...

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A Quote by David Oman McKay on abuse, adultery, chance, character, choice,...

That from the heart come good thoughts and bad thoughts is the message of the Savior. By the right choice, and through application of thought, man ascends to divine perfection; by the abuse and wrong...

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A Quote by General Dwight David Eisenhower on hunger and theft

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Source:  Address...

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A Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D. on accuracy, change, courage,...

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of...

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A Quote by Ken Schoolland on free society, force, coercion, freedom, liberty,...

At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take...

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A Quote by Alan Greenspan on welfare, banking system, inflation, theft,...

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no...

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A Quote by Scott Adams (Dilbert) on dilbert, dogbert, theft, and furniture

I can only think of one thing worse than having all of my stuff stolen. And that is having some of it returned. Source: "Journey to Cubeville" by Scott Adams Contributed by:  BanterBanter read more

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A Quote by Rob Brezsny on longing, theft, and loneliness

Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you. Source:  Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You...

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A Quote by H. Rentzsch on plagiarism, theft, idea, possession, and complaint

"Property in ideas is an insoluble contradiction.  [He who complains of "theft" of his idea] complains that something has been stolen which he still possesses, and he wants back something which, if...

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