Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.