Quotes About Fraud

A lot of people pretend to be. They wear robes and put on airs to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible. But

Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial territory can only be underwritten by loot and tribute extracted by constant new conquests; empires must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Collin, the man who cannot be killed off, whose identity is both branded on him and rendered illegible, challenges, or defies, the very coherence of such an entity, suggesting the possibility that the very subject of The Human Comedy, human society itself, is at bottom an illusion if not a fraud.

Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.