- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stealing Quotes
On power, performance, and taking back.
These quotes use "stealing" in different senses — power quietly shifting from the many to the few, performers stealing scenes, and even parents taking back their kids' CDs. Related reading appears in our Art quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been stealing scenes all my life.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
- Complicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020