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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
George Orwell
All tyrannies govern by deceit and coercion, but once the deception is revealed they must solely depend on force.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Samuel Johnson
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.
Ron Weber
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A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
John Grant
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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.
David Hume
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. Forester
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The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.
Phyllis Schlafly
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No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.
Bernard Ebbers
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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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.
David Chang
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
Benjamin Cardozo
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John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.
Young Jeezy
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He who wins through fraud is not a winner.
Umar
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
Al Pacino
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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
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Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.
Don Nickles
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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
John Milton
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Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?
Andrew Davidson
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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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.
Harry A. Blackmun
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If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.
Erich Fromm
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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.
Gautama Buddha
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Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.
Tina Fey
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The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.
Louis J. Freeh
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Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
Edward Coke
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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
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It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
Thomas Paine
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Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.
William Matthews
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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude Atherton
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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.
Jon Stewart
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Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.
James Purdy
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I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
Moby
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Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.
Travis Tygart
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If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.
Bruce Springsteen
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From a just fraud God turneth not away.
Aeschylus