Quotes about Thieves

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

Aesop

I've known that guy for over 10 years, and he's been stealing jokes and denying it from Day One, ... Joke thieves are a huge problem in the stand-up comedy community, and every now and then one of them becomes successful. That's what you're looking at here with 'Carlos.'

Joe Rogan

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

People that do these sorts of things are a burden on all of us quite frankly. We all pay higher insurance costs. We pay for security systems. Thieves should be locked up as far as I'm concerned.

Jon Mcmullen

I think that they're thieves and I think that they need to go to jail for a very long time and never be allowed to do this to another innocent victim in this city or elsewhere.

Laura Epley

We are most concerned about thieves getting into unlocked vehicles. People need to get in the habit of locking their car doors, whether they are parked at home or out shopping. They can prevent themselves from becoming victims by taking precautionary measures.

Amber Dillon

While this technology expands accessibility and productivity, it introduces complexity and security risk as wireless networks and handheld mobile devices become a new target for hackers and thieves.

Sarah Hicks

He was not in bed with the thieves.

William Petrillo

It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

William Bolitho

We need to jointly create an atmosphere, which supports the righteous deeds and frightens thieves. Only in this way, the world can be a safe one without thieves.

Yuan Guodong

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

Fulton Oursler

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran

If you are hit by identity thieves, time is of the essence. These guys are fast.

Mark Durham

Crooks! Thieves! Hang ?em all!.

Bob Reed

The Americans may think they have "liberated" Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

Robert Fisk

He said it was his plan. The implication is that these people had heard Myles Connor's plan, but instead of using art thieves they used armored car thieves.

Harold Smith

One of the causes of the disaster is deforestation carried by thieves, but we don't know who they are.

Hadi Supeno

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

Bud Abbott

You can put poles up all day long. Thieves are ingenious, and it's unfortunate.

Jon Mcmullen

What identity thieves are after is a profile, and a profile includes a home address, your birth date and your Social Security number. We have so many employees working out there with false credentials.

David Barton

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

Dan Glickman

We must not tolerate politicians who infringe upon our right to defend ourselves from thieves and stalkers and rapists and murderers. And we must not tolerate the politician who simply says: 'Pass another gun control law and call 9-1-1.'

Larry Craig

We need stricter border controls - only 3 percent of cars crossing the border are even checked. We need support for our law enforcement to do undercover work to catch gun thieves and smugglers, and we need to pressure the US to take responsibility for its guns.

Wendy Cukier

In some cities, (thieves) are going into one store after the other and stealing entire rack displays of this company's products.

Jim Paul

It's simply an area that must be traversed if you're going from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean or southeast Asia. What we hope is that order is restored in Somalia and these thieves are dealt with effectively.

Michael Crye

Aside from the mythology involved, one way to look at the troll situation is that you have 'bad patent trolls,' on the one hand, and 'bad patent thieves,' on the other.

Dale Carlson

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

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Sir Thomas More

He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars.

Ed Mcbain

Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.

John Cheever

Thieves come in, violently overtake two security guards and steal valuable art -- that doesn't seem consistent with our mission, does it?

Erin Hogan