The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.
Joe Henderson

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

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
Dan Glickman

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare

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

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Ritchie Blackmore

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
Gregory Nunn

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
Ronald Biggs

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
Jerry Falwell

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
Zebulon Pike

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
Branch Rickey

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Abbie Hoffman

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
Andy Partridge