Fraud Quotes - Page 22

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

  John Bolton

  Abuse, Defense, Waste

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• A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

  Damon Lindelof

  Ideas, Clothes, Feelings

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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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• I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

  Sean Hannity

  Christian, Thinking, People

  "Medium John Edward Explains Ability". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

  Terence McKenna

  Understanding, Psychedelic, Should

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• Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, Two, Wings

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• I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Feelings, Brain

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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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• I used to do boiler room telemarketing for a living, like hardcore fraud stuff that gets busted on 60 Minutes every week.

  Doug Stanhope

  Boiler Room, Stuff, Rooms

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• Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photography, Reality, Men

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• The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the problem is not that I don't question myself. It's just that I question other people even more.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Motivation, Artist, People

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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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• Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

  Linus Pauling

  War, Cancer, Fda

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• I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

  Raymond Chandler

  Years, Common Sense, Fifty

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• I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.

  George Meyer

  Long, People, Car

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?

  Charlie Munger

  Distance, Party, Crooks

  Charlie Munger's advice on investing at the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 6, 2006.

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• To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Honesty, Successful, Artist

  Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”

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• The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

  Henry Adams

  Party, Hands, Reform

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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