thieves

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner,Let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying out for mercy, Let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not.When at last he goeth to his final punishment, Let the flames of Hell consume him forever.[attributed to the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona, Spain]

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Friends are thieves of time.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!

Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape._ Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery

We__e a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don__ believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

I am against justice _ whenever it is carried out by a mob.

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere_including in branches of the U.S. government.