Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.
A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?
When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation. ' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft. '
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.
Where there's property, there's theft.
Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me