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Quotes About Fraud

explosion n. energetic disassembly fake beef n. 1. restructured beef 2. textured meat alternative fake cheese n. cheese analog fake crab meat n. surimi-based crab analog fake diamonds n. real counterfeit diamonds fake jewels n. faux jewels fake leather n. genuine imitation leather
~ William D. Lutz
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
this Revolutionary ideology, epitomized by the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, showed that the very idea of slavery is a fiction or fraud, since liberty and equality are fundamental rights that no one can legitimately lose.
~ David Brion Davis
it may be true that, if I could con- vince everyone in the world that I was the King of France, I would in fact become the King of France; but it would never work if I were to admit that this was the only basis of my claim. In this sense, politics is very similar to magic — one reason both politics and magic tend, just about everywhere, to be surrounded by a certain halo of fraud.
~ David Graeber
Lilian testifies eloquently to the misery that can ensue when the only challenge you can overcome in your own work is the challenge of coming to terms with the fact that you are not, in fact, presented with any challenges; when the only way you can exercise your powers is in coming up with creative ways to cover up the fact that you cannot exercise your powers; of managing the fact that you have, completely against your choosing, been turned into a parasite and fraud.
~ David Graeber
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
From a just fraud God turneth not away.
~ Aeschylus
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.
~ Ron Weber
According to The New York Times, the mob has now gotten into Medicare fraud. But the good news is, when they do break your legs there's a good chance you're covered.
~ Jay Leno
Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
~ Holly Black
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
~ Ted Nugent
The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.
~ Bernard Madoff
The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.
~ Cynthia McKinney
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.
~ John Stossel
Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".
~ Steven Magee
Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.
~ A.E. Samaan
If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
~ Eric Schneiderman
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
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.
~ John Coleman
The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle
~ Steven Magee
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
~ James Gibbons