White Collar Crime Quotes

• White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, America, Crime

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• I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Years, White

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• The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, Justice, Criminals

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• Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.

  Harry Markopolos

  Jobs, Home, Government

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• At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.

  Ken Schoolland

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

  Waylon Jennings

  Men, Order, Years

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• It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

  Nalini Singh

  Men, White, Despair

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Father, Years, White

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• White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

  Adam McKay

  White, Bored, Dollars

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