Plagiarism Quotes
Plagiarism Quote of the day
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.
Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one.
plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.