Top Theft Quotes

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

Theft Definition

(n.) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

(n.) The thing stolen.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created.Realizing this requires humility, a trai...

The first people to get the new money are the counterfeiters, which they use to buy various goods and services. The second receivers of the new money are the retailers who sell those goods to the coun...

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscien...

We were two of a kind, the only difference being that he was reverential before all the traditional word magic, and I would steal it if I could. He came to the tradition as a pilgrim, I as a pickpocke...

For anyone who thinks "profit" is evil, I have a challenge for you: try NOT to get any profit in the next week. Profit simply means increasing how much valuable stuff you have, and if you don't profit...

In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heav...

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, "You're not allowed to do what you're doing! And if you don't stop it right now, we are going to ask you to order yoursel...

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he th...

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercia...

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensate...

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.