Thieves Quotes

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

Society, Stupidity, Guilty

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Money, Men

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu

Made, Order, Laws

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

Great, Public, Office

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle

War, Fight, Battle

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus

Jealousy, Dog, Attracts

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce

Politics, Two, Cannot

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Respect, May, Wish

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro

Time, Real, Revolution

The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes

Great, Away, Lead

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

Peace, War, Makes

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

Nothing, Small, Number

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

Small, Economic, Return

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
Martin Scorsese

Father, Old, Sense

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler

Future, Fear, Past

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
John McCarthy

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
Al Lewis

Live, Call, Empty

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
Michael Nesmith

Good, Bad, Honest

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney

Men, Wise, Ignore

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
Dick Armey

Money, Children, Three

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
Mary Harris Jones

Women, God, Made

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Pablo Casals

Greatest, Forget, Everyone

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Poor, Away, Might

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
Ben Kingsley

Alive, Might, Wonder

You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
Nathan Fillion

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.
Joe Rogan

Hate, Nothing, Person

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.
Alexei Navalny

Forward, Struggle, Him

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
Frank Miller

Nothing, America, False

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet

Beauty, Deep, Traitors

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