Fraud Quotes - Page 21

• The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Vices, Deceit

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• Of course, ISIS is a terrible organization that has to be defeated. And, of course, we need a strong military. But just as with every other agency of government, you know what, the military also has got to get rid of waste and fraud and cost overruns.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Military, Agency

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Environmental, Generations

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• Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

  Wesley Clark

  Party, People, Political

  "Clark: Kerry has moral courage born in battle". edition.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Mean, Issues, Clouds

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Holocaust, Fields, Study

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Real, Wind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.372

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• I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it.

  Matt Groening

  America, Justice, Liberty

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• Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

  Warren Buffett

  Gun, Years, Vices

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1988.

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• There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

  John Bolton

  Abuse, Defense, Waste

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• I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Beautiful, Attitude, Years

  "Unbought and Unbossed". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1970.

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• If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Government, Deception

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.141, Harriman House Limited

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• We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

  Tertullian

  Eye, Cutting, Thinking

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• And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

  DeForest Soaries

  Country, America, Election

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• But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

  Philip Larkin

  Photography, Art, Faithful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

  Andrew Davidson

  Democracy, Monsters

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.394, Anchor

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• If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Nice, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.

  Steve Fowler

  Religious, Deception, Anti Religious

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• Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it.

  Charlie Crist

  Office, Dollars, Lost

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• Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Government, Effort

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.207, Knopf

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• The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.

  Walter Cronkite

  Meaningful, Political, Campaigns

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• Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Fans, Doe

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• The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

  Henry Adams

  Delight, Photograph, Coarse

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• It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.

  Charles Ferguson

  Creating, Culture, Behaviour

  "Heist of the century: Wall Street's role in the financial crisis". www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

  Sheridan Smith

  Drama, School, Looks

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