In Reply to: A thief is a thief is a thief posted by Pat Malone on Monday, 13. July 2009 at 08:03 Bali Time:
and one i'm still considering, is the one i read in this wonderful book i was given this year. The book is written by an Australian woman who set up free schools in Tanzania for children who live in terrible poverty. Quoting straight from the book..............
"The second, linked, realisation was that if things went wrong and people stole or abused the system, it was my fault, not theirs. Those people had very little in their lives, little materially or educationally. If I allowed temptation to come their way and they succumbed, then it was entirely up to me."