Quotes about Plagiarism

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes! Remember why the good Lord made your eyes! So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - Only be sure always to call it please 'research'." [ Lobachevsky ]

Art is theft.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read, but there is nothing vicious in its teachings. Its code of morals is unobjectionable- -it is smouched [Milton] from the New Testament and no credit given.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God