But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the heart come evil intentions, murd...er, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue ...is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognised that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self- government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, "I love children because they're so ...honest." There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the c...hance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honour and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger a...nd are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
May something go always unharvested! May much stay out of our stated plan,... Apples or something forgotten and left, So smelling their sweetness would be no theft.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life ...flowers except on a cemetery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and cont...rary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »