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

A selfish man is a thief.
Jose Marti

A thief believes everybody steals.
Edward W. Howe

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
Samuel Fuller

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.
Aleksandr Lebed

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Tony Hillerman

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.
Johan Cruijff

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.
Joe Garagiola

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Katherine Anne Porter

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
Vittorio De Sica

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
Eamon de Valera

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Edgar Watson Howe

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald

Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon