Top 25 Stealing Quotes of 323 - Page 3

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Chet Atkins

Copying, Research, Stealing

Only your friends steal your books.

Voltaire

Book, Stealing

I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

Arthur Darvill

Bird, Stealing, Caged

Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.

Robert Nozick

People, Transition, Stealing

Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Pablo Picasso

Design, Stealing, Copies

Let no one steal your peace.

Bikram Choudhury

Yoga, Stealing

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

Warren Ellis

Cutting, Stealing, Comic Book

Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.

Shantideva

Buddhist, Giving, Stealing

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

Salman Rushdie

Language, Stealing, Magpies

Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

Richard Louv

Doe, Amplify, Stealing

FaceBook post by Richard Louv from Dec 13, 2012

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Malcolm Bradbury

Book, Way, Stealing

Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage

Holding back is so close to stealing.

Neil Young

Humor, Deep Thought, Stealing

Song: One More Sign, Album: Neil Young Archives Volume I (1963 - 1972)(8 CD with 160 page book)

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

Jimmy Breslin

Numbers, Thieves, Stealing

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

Jackie Mason

Italian, Half, Stealing

You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.

Derek Landy

Stealing, Skulduggery Pleasant, Pleasant

Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

Amos Oz

Book, Stealing, Academic

Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Stealing, Poor

He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.

Laozi

Hook, Stealing, States

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

Banksy

Artist, Stealing, Great Art

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Al Neuharth

Ideas, Stealing, Good Ideas

Whenever possible, steal code.

Tom Duff

Stealing, Code

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

Goodluck Jonathan

Corruption, Stealing, Mere

"Update: 2015: Choosing between “Two Devils”-Jonathan And Buhari,”corruption personified And Islamic-Bigot”; do you really have a choice in 2015?", republicreporters.com. November 6, 2014.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

George Bernard Shaw

Long, Painful, Stealing

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2936, e-artnow