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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Pablo Casals

The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
Josh Hartnett

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
Michael Nesmith

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Brent Spiner

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
Joe Henderson

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
Ben Kingsley

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
John McCarthy

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
Al Lewis

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
Dick Armey

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.
Luis Gutierrez

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.
Robert Fisk

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
Bud Abbott

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
Jeff Tweedy

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Thieves Translations

thieves in French is voleurs
thieves in German is Diebe, stiehlt, Diebe
thieves in Italian is ruba, ladri

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