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 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

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

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
Joe Henderson

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

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

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
Jeff Tweedy

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

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton Oursler

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

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