Top 70 Theft Quotes

We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what’s to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.

The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.

Online theft has changed the business model of filmmaking because the DVD market is very soft. So, more ambitious, compelling, character-driven narrative of a certain budget level isn’t really a viable business model in the eyes of the studios right now.

Inflation is taxation and taxation is theft that takes more money out of hard-working Americans’ pocket books.

Property is theft.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

Cyber-enabled theft of trade secrets by state actors in China has emerged as a major threat to our economic and, thus, national security.

The United States will not tolerate the P.R.C.’s (People’s Republic of China) violations of our sovereignty and intimidation of our people, just as we have not tolerated the P.R.C.’s unfair trade practices, theft of American jobs and other egregious behavior.

I’ve always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a product available that is well priced, well timed to market, whether it’s a movie product, TV product, music product, even theme-park product.

The police can’t protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there’s nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

I know a baseball star who wouldn’t report the theft of his wife’s credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund – doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation – especially in the suburbs.

I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard ‘Saturday’ and ‘Grand Theft Autumn’ and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it’s bold. It’s out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it’s hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

All art is theft.

Citizens identify with something larger than themselves – if one’s country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer’s account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.

‘Grand Theft Auto’, in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Stealing is stealing. I would hope that a federal employee that engages in theft of trusting travelers would be disciplined more than with just a letter.

When you’re doing something for the first time, you don’t know it’s going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it’s copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn’t. I think it’s theft, and it’s lazy.

When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn’t get around to it until I was 29, but I always recognized that pollution was a theft. That it was a way of stealing something from the public – the common earth.

A libertarian presidential candidate isn’t going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn’t the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

We all have legitimate concerns over the way our personal data is used and stored and it is right that there are protections to stop the theft and manipulation of our private information.

To prevent the theft of ‘Ben-Hur’s sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

All time faves would be ‘Smash TV,’ ‘NHL Hockey,’ ‘Grand Theft Autos,’ ‘NBA Lives,’ ‘Sonic.’

If you play a game like ‘Grand Theft Auto’ you don’t go home afterwards and cry because you ran over a couple characters, because you do not give them personhood.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

There’s been a streak of vengeance and carnage in all of Dylan’s records except for the Christmas record, since 2001, since ‘Love and Theft.’ Particularly on ‘Modern Times’ in 2006.

Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

I certainly don’t know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I’ll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Healthy competition is good for the global economy. Criminal conduct is not. Rampant theft is not. Cheating is not.

I used to play ‘Grand Theft Auto 4’ and used to have a little community and we were some of the best players online.

Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

I’m the best PlayStation player you’ll ever see. I’ll play anything. ‘Call of Duty,’ ‘NBA2K,’ ‘Grand Theft Auto.’

Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren’t getting the same return. This is theft. It’s systemized.

When I play ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ I’m such a nerdy little law abider because I’ve always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.

Banks and credit agencies learn continuously about the purchases we make. This is convenient and diminishes the risk of theft. It also means that banks can know more about our lifestyle than our close relatives.

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Knowing who you are and what guns you own was indeed the key to the massive gun theft by government in Australia that saw hundreds of thousands of honest, law-abiding citizens disarmed.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.

It’s sad when ‘Grand Theft Auto’ has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only that, but the theft is tearing apart communities with stolen church and cemetery ornaments.

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.