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Quotes About Fraud

Obama's "generosity" is a fraud: he is bestowing on young people money that is actually their own.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
the best con men were the ones you'd embrace and then buy dinner and toast their good health even when they were stealing you blind.
~ Jack L. Chalker
For decades, chalk and alum have been added to bread, and burnt corn and peas ground up to make coffee. Vinegar is rendered sharper by the addition of sulphuric acid, arrowroot is added to milk to thicken it, mustard is eked out with flour, strychnine is added to beer for bitterness and green vitriol to encourage a foaming head. And these are but the harmless manipulations.
~ Unknown
JAMES. Same thing. He's gone to work in the most cold-blooded way to defraud his employers, and cast the blame on an innocent man. If that's not a case for the law to take its course, I don't know what is. WALTER. For the sake of his future, though. JAMES. [Sarcastically] According to you, no one would ever prosecute. WALTER. [Nettled] I hate the idea of it.
~ John Galsworthy
the jury that conniving her way into wills handwritten by her old and vulnerable bosses was a devious pattern.
~ John Grisham
right price they can produce college diplomas, birth certificates, marriage licenses, court orders, car titles, eviction notices, driver's licenses, credit histories—there's no limit to their mischief. Some of what they do is illegal and some is not. They brazenly advertise on the Internet, along with an astonishing number of competitors, but claim to be careful about whom they work for.
~ John Grisham
When the State, with its limitless resources, commences a fraudulent case and cheats at every turn, then cheating is legitimized. There is no level playing field. There is no fairness. The only honorable alternative for a lawyer fighting to save an innocent client is to cheat in defense.
~ John Grisham
Fats knew the playbook and was adept at the dirty tricks: stuffing ballot boxes, raising large sums of unreported money, buying blocks of votes, spreading lies, intimidating voters, harassing poll workers, bribing election officials, and voting dead people with absentee ballots.
~ John Grisham
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
~ John Lydon
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
~ John Derbyshire
Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.
~ Travis Tygart
Making complaints against stock brokers to SEBI is useless because brokers and Sebi are both hands in glove to make investors penniless
~ Unknown
SEBI is fooling investors by not taking any action against brokers. All it will say Please lodge your complaint on SEBI Complaint Redress System (SCORES) at https://www.scores.gov.in . It is all DRAMA
~ Unknown
envious laymen had come up with the ruse of claiming their households were monasteries
~ Unknown
Henceforth His might we know, and know our own, So as not either to provoke, or dread New war provoked. Our better part remains To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not; that He no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
~ John Milton
Yet, by men in this country, as by the Jews, when Moses was leading them to the promised land, everything has been done that inherited depravity could do, to hinder the promise of Heaven from its fulfilment. The cross, here as elsewhere, has been planted only to be blasphemed by cruelty and fraud.
~ Margaret Fuller
Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.
~ Jay Leno
My revenue is the silly cheat
~ William Shakespeare
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
~ Pearl Bailey
When you trick somebody into participating in a small-time fraud, it's called a 'scam.' But when the scam is so big that people have no choice but to participate, it's called 'economics.
~ Mark Russell
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
~ Mark Twain
The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Framed to make women false.
~ William Shakespeare
Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.
~ Mark Vonnegut