Set a thief to catch a thief.

:To be led by a thief

Until you put these things to right, you're not entitled to boast of the justice meted out to thieves, for it's a justice more specious than real or social desirable. You allow these people to be brought up in the worst possible way, and systematically corrupted from their earliest years. Finally, when they grow up and commit the crimes that they were obviously destined to commit, ever since they were children, you start punishing them. In other words, you create thieves, and then punish them for stealing.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

It is not hard to identify a thief: It is the one who believes that everybody steals.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

This makes it Lawful for a Man to Kill a Thief, who has not in the least hurt him, nor declared any design upon his life, any farther then by the use of Force, so to get him in his Power, as to take away his Money, or what he pleases from him.: because using force, where he has no Right, to get me into his Power, let his pretense be what it will, I have no reason to purpose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away every thing else. And therefore it is Lawful for me to treat him, as one who has put himself into a State of War with me, I.e. kill him if I can; for to that hazard does he justly expose himself, whoever introduces a State of War, and is Aggressor in it.

He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.

The difference between a successful thief and a dead thief is knowing when to escape with your takings.

A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.

This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief,

To robbe Peter and pay Poule.

He who digs a pit for his brother shall fall into it; and he who sets up traps shall be caught in them.

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."