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Stealing Quotes - Page 6

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labor and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.26

You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.

Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.38, City Lights Books

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

"Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

"Bill Bailey: Tinselworm". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

"The Beggar". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.87