5 Quotes Tagged: thievery

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No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

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

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

Zhuangzi, Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)

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