Fraud Quotes

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

Religion, Fear, Poetry

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles

Rather, Honor, Succeed

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana

Change, Experience, Daily

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard

Beautiful, Cinema

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Alan Greenspan

Less, Simply, Abuse

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
Sophocles

Through, Secure, Unjust

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
Armistead Maupin

Today, Internet, Strangers

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling

Everyone, Support, Research

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
Ben Stein

Work, Finance, Fight

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Frederick William Robertson

Three, Deserve, Tyranny

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
Ben Stein

Age, God, Amazing

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Publilius Syrus

Pay, Unable, Borrow

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton

Evil, Democracy, Rather

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Benito Mussolini

Comedy, Socialism, Phantom

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
David Cameron

Time, Decisions, Difficult

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin

Freedom, Equality, Political

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
Anne Lamott

Love, Funny, Someone

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand

Family, Through, Arrogance

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck

Try, Gentleman, Half

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus

Truth, After, Speak

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.
Ben Stein

Bad, Write, Found

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes

War, Two, Force

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
John Perkins

Life, Men, History

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'
Eliot Spitzer

Country, Again, Easy

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Charles Simmons

End, Shame, Repentance

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
George Galloway

Enough, Vote, College

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
Ron Lewis

Growing, Tax, Accounting

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
Meg Whitman

Work, Government, Pain

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
John Bolton

Abuse, Waste, Budget

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
Ben Stiller

Work, Fear, Tired

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