Fraud Quotes

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

He who wins through fraud is not a winner.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Proof by analogy is fraud.

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

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

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

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

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.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

Yes! We finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the public by companies like Enron, Global Crossing, and Tyco we finally got the ring leader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

The 1984 tax trials, when he appealed his New York state and New York City audits, were about Donald Trump claiming zero revenue for his consulting business and taking over $600,000 of deductions, for which he couldn't produce any documentation, no receipts, no checks, nothing, those two elements, zero income and huge deductions, combined with his own tax guy testifying under oath, that's my signature, but I didn't prepare that tax return, those are very strong badges of fraud.

From a just fraud God turneth not away.

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

Seen in the context of Donald Trump having committed sales tax fraud in the past, which is indisputable, I think that it's reasonable for the American public to ask, did you go beyond what's lawful, maybe scandalously lawful, but lawful, and violate the law?

Fraud makes the world go round.

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.