Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
Thieves must sit in prison.
What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Property is theft.
Property is organized robbery.