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Quotes About Swindling

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
~ Mark Twain
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
~ Edmund Burke
School taught me only to read and write. And that sliver of learning set me on the surest road to starving to death in honesty and ignorance. You were the first to open my eyes to widespread corruption. To have understood that the only forces that drive humanity are thieving and swindling - that's real intelligence. And you didn't even go to school.
~ Albert Cossery
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
~ Edmund Burke
And when once in a while some leisurely passer-by stopped, made merry over the old figure on the board, and spoke of swindling, that was in its own way the stupidest lie ever invented by indifference and inborn malice, since it was not the hunger artist who was cheating, he was working honestly, but the world was cheating him of his reward.
~ Franz Kafka
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
~ Thomas Jefferson
for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.
~ Upton Sinclair
I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
~ Glenn Beck
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
~ William Graham Sumner
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
~ Charles Dickens
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did
~ Charles Dickens
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
~ 1 Corinthians 5:10
But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
~ 1 Corinthians 5:11
nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
~ 1 Corinthians 6:10