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Quotes About Fraud

It's time to override this fraud being committed on the American voter of the two-party tyranny of this private corporation of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
~ Jill Stein
Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right
~ they could also be deadly.
Perhaps the internet has returned us to a world a bit like the Stone Age in which there is no place for a fraudster to hide.
~ Matt Ridley
The man who is convinced of his own worthlessness will be drawn to a woman he despises—because she will reflect his own secret self, she will release him from that objective reality in which he is a fraud, she will give him a momentary illusion of his own value and a momentary escape from the moral code that damns him.
~ Ayn Rand
If you want to defeat any kind of vicious fraud—comply with it literally, adding nothing of your own to disguise its nature.
~ Ayn Rand
My way of trading is to know that the joy you give me is paid for by the joy you get from me—not by your suffering or mine. I don't accept sacrifices and I don't make them. If you asked me for more than you meant to me, I would refuse. If you asked me to give up the railroad, I'd leave you. If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.
~ Ayn Rand
sold to the public on false pretenses, high officials confessing to ordering torture in violation of treaty and domestic law, and an economic meltdown even former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledges involved massive fraud—and no one has been prosecuted, no one has gone to prison, and Americans continue to dutifully cast their votes for the Democratic/Republican duopoly responsible for these disasters.
~ Barry Eisler
Fraud, my children! Fraud and forgery. Dry rot covered with paint and gilded with lies
~ Barry Hughart
I was able to convince them that the Starling case is not, essentially, about extortion, kidnapping, decapitation or murder. It is about postage stamps.' 'Postage stamps?' 'More particularly about the forgery of rare postage stamps, which is fraud, our bailiwick.
~ Barry Maitland
Ree was okay, but she was like a toddler, how silence made her anxious. Ree was in for credit fraud, forgery, and drug possession with intent to sell.
~ Stephen King
imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled.
~ Steve Berry
the ratification process may have been flawed, yet he certified the amendment passed anyway, that was fraud. Which meant that every single cent collected through a wrongfully adopted 16th Amendment was subject to suit and restitution. Those
~ Steve Berry
They're running the con on themselves.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
Fraudulent hope is one of the greatest malefactors, even enervators, of the human race, concretely genuine hope its most dedicated benefactor.
~ Ernst Bloch
Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?
~ John Quincy Adams
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
~ Charles Simmons
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
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
~ John Stossel
There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example, there's fraud by false representation. This is aimed at people who say something misleading to line their pockets or cause financial harm to someone else.
~ Emily Thornberry
We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.
~ Dannel Malloy
When an illegal vote is cast for president, that illegal vote is also cast for a city councilman.
~ Chris Collins
For illegal robocallers, the goal isn't always getting you to answer. Sometimes, it's getting you to call back.
~ Jeff Van Drew
It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.
~ Mo Ibrahim