Fraud Quotes - Page 17

• Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Atheism, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

  David Foster Wallace

  Ideas, People, Trying

  "David Foster Wallace's first biographer, D.T. Max, on his inscrutable subject" by Mark Sussman, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Ideas, Light

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• By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Taken, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1884). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Published by Order of Congress from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State”

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• Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.

  David Lammy

  Gay, Black And White, People

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• Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

  Jonathan Swift

  Justice, Judging, Office

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• I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

  Ben Stein

  Wall, Writing, Years

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• Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

  Steig Larsson

  Criminals

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• I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Stupidity

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Divorce, Boys, Ever After

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• My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

  Stephen Fry

  Firsts, Facts, Kind

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.35, Soho Press

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• Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

  Ian Mcewan

  Views, Talking, Years

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.99, Random House

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• In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Real, Lovely

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

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• In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  World, Sometimes, Disaster

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

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• There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has never been easier, and the tools for committing electronic mischief on your enemies are cheap and widely accessible.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Doubt, Enemy, Identity

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• It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.

  Libba Bray

  Struggle, Trying, Skins

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Book, Artist

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• Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

  Juan Williams

  Rich Or Poor, Cities, White

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• WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Lying, Government

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2012). “63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Lust is the cause of generation
  Appetite is the support of life
  Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and
  Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fear, Support, Lust

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.263, OUP Oxford

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• It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were set free, that sort of particular proclivity in human nature was set free to do its best and its worst. Politicians and regulators are consumers of ideas. They never have any ideas of their own, it would take too much like hard work to develop ideas, you get them off menus and you pick the ones that suit you. Financial services were set free to go beyond their rightful place, a place by which they have been restrained in the past.

  Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

  Hard Work, Mean, Past

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If anything, a message back to [Donald] Trump is, if you have proof, if you have evidence, please bring it forward. Procedures are in place to investigate any real voter fraud.

  Audie Cornish

  Real, Voter Fraud, Voters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone's afraid of it, and I definitely am. This is a fear that motivates. Oh, and heights. And getting stabbed.

  Baron Vaughn

  Height, Way, Existential

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You are the antithesis of a racist if you're white and you want to be black and you go out and do everything you can to identify as black, how in the world can they condemn that? That's not fraud. That's good intentions. And as we know, as we've learned, we are supposed to examine the good intentions and not the nature of the evidence.

  Rush Limbaugh

  White, Black, Racist

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud.

  Kenny Chesney

  Gay, Negative, World

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