Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief we want to know how much money he stole and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom but what he did with it.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery you shall not kill you shall not steal you shall not covet and so on are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion a screwball can be a pitch or a person stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.