Fraud Quotes

• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

  

  Sophocles
  • Honor
  • Fail
  • Fraud

• Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Face
  • Institutions
  • Fraud

• Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

  

  Aristotle
  • Force
  • Revolutions
  • Effected

• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Protection
  • Deception
  • Fraud

• The word 'fraud' will be in some of the documents that are the settlement documents, ... I believe very deeply that at its root what was going on with the analysts and the investment bankers was probably the largest fraud ever committed upon the investing public.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Believe
  • Investment
  • Documents

• Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Fraud
  • Suspicion
  • Flavor

• Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

  

  James Cook
  • People
  • Culture
  • Government

• Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.

  

  Marta Andreasen
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Taken

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

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Me
  • Looks
  • Fraud

• Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Risk
  • Market
  • Tolerate

• 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
  • High
  • Measure
  • Fraud

• I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • People
  • Breasts
  • Tummy

• Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

  

  John Ensign
  • Program
  • Corruption
  • Fraud

• Concealment of negative facts that might influence a consumer to purchase another manufacturer's product is the essence of fraud.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Facts
  • Consumer
  • Purchase

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

  

  Al Pacino
  • Ability
  • Fraud
  • Exceeds

• A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Well
  • Fraud
  • Negligence

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

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Great
  • Age
  • Education

• The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Choice
  • Word

• China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Technology
  • Stock
  • China

• The problem was that public had no way to know that this “evidence” was part of an industry campaign designed to confuse. It was, in fact, part of a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud.

  

  Naomi Oreskes
  • Evidence
  • Campaign
  • Fraud

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

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Boys
  • Divorce
  • Pool

• A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

  

  George Orwell
  • Society
  • Structure
  • Succeeds

• 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 Black Flag
  • Night
  • Brain
  • Feelings

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