#steal

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#afraid #competitors #manufacturers #many #march

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. ↗

— Jerry Only

#cds #kids #now #parents #problem

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#afford #because #being #copied #enraged

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#bar #i #i think #i tried #mars

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#education #freight #gone #man #may

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#civilized #distinction #drawn #office #people

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#during #famine #person #steals #thief

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#becomes #callous #conform #dull #emptiness

When a man kills another man, the people say he is a murderer, but when the Emir kills him, the Emir is just. When a man robs a monastery, they say he is a thief, but when the Emir robs him of his life, the Emir is honourable. When a woman betrays her husband, they say she is an adulteress, but when the Emir makes her walk naked in the streets and stones her later, the Emir is noble. Shedding of blood is forbidden, but who made it lawful for the Emir? Stealing one's money is a crime, but taking away one's life is a noble act. Betrayal of a husband may be an ugly deed, but stoning of living souls is a beautiful sight. Shall we meet evil with evil and say this is the Law? Shall we fight corruption with greater corruption and say this is the Rule? Shall we conquer crimes with more crimes and say this is Justice? Had not the Emir killed an enemy in his past life? Had he not robbed his weak subjects of money and property? Had he not committed adultery? Was he infallible when he killed the murderer and hanged the thief in the tree? Who are those who hanged the thief in the tree? Are they angels descended from heaven, or men looting and usurping? Who cut off the murderer's head? Are they divine prophets, or soldiers shedding blood wherever they go? Who stoned that adulteress? Were they virtuous hermits who came from their monasteries, or humans who loved to commit atrocities with glee, under the protection of ignorant Law? What is Law? Who saw it coming with the sun from the depths of heaven? What human saw the heart of God and found its will or purpose? In what century did the angels walk among the people and preach to them, saying, "Forbid the weak from enjoying life, and kill the outlaws with the sharp edge of the sword, and step upon the sinners with iron feet? ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#crimes #justice #murderer #stealing #beauty

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #borrowing #interest #just #lending