{"quotes":[{"text":"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["food","lift","thieves"],"id":726,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["immoral-politicians","immoral-society","murat-ildan","politicians","politicians","thief","thief-society","thieves","to-the-death"],"id":7780,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["advice","dealing-with-people","friendships","guidance","life-and-living","people","relationships","thieves","warning","wisdom"],"id":14097,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"The gangs of arrogant thieves that can rob you of your success are your own doubts, fears and low self-image. Get them arrested and kept distances apart and you and your accomplishments are secured.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishments","attack","distance","doubting","doubts","fear","fear-of-the-unknown","fearful","fears","food-for-thought","gang","israelmore-ayivor","loot","rob","robbers","secure","security","self-esteem","self-image","steal","success","thieves"],"id":16837,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["affluence","affluent","africa","african-leaders","change","change-makers","change-the-world","corrupt","corrupt-leaders","corruption","food-for-thought","govern","governance","government","greed","greediness","greedy","greedy-leaders","hungry","i-am-rich","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","mission","money","penury","personal-development","political","political-leaders","politics","poor","poor-people","poverty","rich","rich-man","riches","self-improvement","thief","thieves","wealth","wealthy"],"id":54920,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Friends are thieves of time.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["friends","thieves "],"id":59446,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["corrupt-politics","corruption","funny","government","honesty","humor","humorous","mark-twain","pickpockets","politicians","public-service","sad-but-true","thieves","villainy"],"id":84960,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets. ","author":"Elizabeth Gilbert","tags":["demons","protection","thieves"],"id":85949,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gilbert"},{"text":"Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.","author":"Robert Higgs","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","coercion","collectivism","evil","freedom","gang","government","individualism","knowledge","libertarian","liberty","mafia","matrix","philosophy","politics","rationality","reason","self-knowledge","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","thieves","truth","useful-idiots","voluntaryism","voting"],"id":86440,"author_id":"Robert+Higgs"},{"text":"Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","fair","free-markets","freedom","gang","government","interventionism","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","mafia","non-aggression-principle","protectionism","rulers","statism","taxation","theft","thieves","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":93467,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}