It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Quotes about thievery (9 Quotes)
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
I wouldn't have any problem with that, if it would stop the thievery. My customers wouldn't mind doing it, I don't think. They're honest people.
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.
Everyday the hunt for Iraqi assets unveils more and Hussein's thievery from the Iraqi people, ... Taking international action to identify and freeze funds pilfered by the fallen regime is crucial to the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
As soon as one or more of these major corporate figures is indicted and convicted for the thievery that occurred at the expense of the American investor, I think confidence will gradually come back,
That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival, ... This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery.
He's angry when he leaves. His aggression has been building on each trip he makes because he can't find Paul Alamo. And he has good reason He knows Paul Alamo has shined the law enforcement light on that den of thievery.
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.