Fraud Quotes - Page 12

• The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Understanding, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• My colleagues thought I was an embarrassment because I was talking about mind, body, spirit. So I was called a quack. I was called a fraud, which I initially resented, but then I got used to it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Talking, Mind, Body

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• If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

  Bill Ackman

  Trading Floor, Looks, Phantoms

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• Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.

  Fred Reichheld

  Book, Names, Differences

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• A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Intelligent, Men, Miracle

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.875, Library of Alexandria

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• Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

  Dave Barry

  Cancer, Florida, Numbers

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• We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

  Kevin Drum

  People, Effort, Benefits

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• Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Responsibility, Views

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• I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud.

  Jon Stewart

  Placebo Effect, Missing, Golden Girls

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• Nearly everyone who is unemployed votes "Democrat." Nearly every immigrant, at least in the first generation, votes "Democrat." Nearly every non-white American votes "Democrat." The GOP know that so intellectually and financially bankrupt an administration should never have been re-elected - indeed, given the scale of electoral fraud practiced by the "Democrats," he may not actually have been re-elected (always supposing that he had the constitutional right to hold the office of president in the first place).

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Supposing That, White, Office

  "State Of Disunion: A 'Radical' Solution" by Christopher Monckton, www.wnd.com. January 28, 2014.

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• I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official "global warming" storyline but also the connections between these instances, and the overall scheme of deception that the individual artifices appear calculated to reinforce.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Deception, Together, Connections

  "Making the police state work for you" by Christopher Monckton, www.climatedepot.com. December 15, 2011.

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• But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Cutting

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.143

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• Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Country, Fall, Heart

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• Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Government, Elderly, People

  "Elections 2012: Who is Really ‘Pro-Life?’" by Joni Eareckson Tada, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched misery if they could find no buyers, the so called “equality before the law” remains a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can also be no talk of a “right over one's own person,” for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if he does not want to starve.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Country, Law, Long

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• The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Wall, May, Facts

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• Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

  Charles Duhigg

  Bankers, Research, Investment

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• A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good name to have when you're going to prison. And Kenny Boy ain't too good either. ... I guess in prison they'll have done to them what they did to the stockholders.

  Jay Leno

  Boys, Names, Done

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• If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous . . . let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Civilization, Names

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.558, e-artnow

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• I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

  Edward Norton

  Sea, Actors, Feels

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should at once become perfect; if this does not happen, then the believer must be a fraud and a hypocrite. He thinks that adherence to a religion is the end of the road, whereas it is in fact only the beginning of a very long and sometimes very rough road. He looks for consistency in religious people, however aware he may be of inconsistencies in himself

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Religious, Believe, Hypocrite

  Gai Eaton (1985). “Islam and the Destiny of Man”, p.58, SUNY Press

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• The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

  Mitt Romney

  Culture, Movement, Multiculturalism

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.264, Macmillan

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• For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

  Alexander Pope

  Toil, Lovers, Ends

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.42, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude that, if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction.

  Edward Gibbon

  Dream, Eye, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus”, p.155, 谷月社

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• Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

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