Thieves must sit in prison.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
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.
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
A thief believes everybody steals.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.