Murray Rothbard

A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the 'multiplier effect,' it unfortunately carries more conviction.

American Economist

Mark Walport

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.

British Scientist

Priti Patel

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.

British Politician

Rebecca MacKinnon

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.

American Journalist

Chris Hedges

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Russian Author

Dmitri Alperovitch

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

Russian Businessman

Adam Conover

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

American Comedian

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

French Economist

David Shields

American Author

Theft can vary in severity from minor to serious, impacting the legal consequences.

Crime Severity

Different cultures may view theft in varying degrees of stigma and moral wrongness.

Cultural Perception

Theft often has a strong emotional effect on victims, evoking feelings of violation.

Emotional Impact

In the legal domain, theft is a specific charge with defined elements that must be proven.

Legal Context

Theft always involves the lack of consent; borrowing without permission is not theft.

Consent Matters

Legal terms for theft, like 'larceny' or 'embezzlement,' have very specific meanings.

Exclusive Legal Terms

 The day I left home for the first time to go to university was a bright day brimming with hope and optimism. I'd done well at school. Expectations for me were high, and I gleefully entered the student life of lectures, parties and traffic cone theft. Now appearances, of course, can be deceptive,

The voices in my head PIPE...

 had one state who was to ride bed nets to the communities and while they reported they received them in the stores and we found them in the stores the community said we had never received these bed nets fortunately for us they were branded branded to stop theft but we found these

The path toward...

 trafficker revealed a faked provenance for the set examples like this one give hope that something can be done to stem the trade however it may only be a drop in the bucket there isn't a country in the world that doesn't suffer from cultural property theft not one

The Odd Couple of Art...

 it wasn’t totally inconceivable for Peruggia to be locked inside the museum. And, lucky for him, when a workman encountered him in the stairwell, he simply helped Peruggia open the door and let him walk out into the morning. The theft made international headlines.

Why is the Mona Lisa so...

 would determine not only the future course of our psychology, but the future course of the entire world. And most importantly for this, it'll tell us why we have language. And the reason that dilemma arose is, it turns out, that social learning is visual theft.

Mark Pagel: How language...

 to billions of dollars lost each year to fraud, malware or plain old identity theft, which is a serious issue. But there are other hackers, hackers who just like to break things, and it is precisely those hackers that can find the weaker elements in our world

Hackers: the internet's...

 disorderly conduct to theft and assault surprisingly they're not cuffed or restrained in any way it's part of a policy intended to help reduce stress during booking but over two-thirds of the arrestees are drug users and many

County Jail Booking...

 and there are similar statistics all over the world. We also need to think about the legal issues in this area. The cybercriminals I talked about, despite theft of millions of dollars, actually still haven't been arrested,

James Lyne: Everyday...

 either eat it or bury it secretly but the thief hasn't abandoned her life of crime spy squirrel has a new knot one with a camera theft is such an easy option around a