Fraud Quotes - page 2

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right. (Robert Nozick)
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice. View quote
George Washington
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. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times. View quote
Edward Coke
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment. View quote
Friedrich Engels
Coming in, I was denounced as a fraud by all the extreme men of the opposing party, and as an ingrate and a traitor by the same class of men in my own party. Going out, I have the good will, blessings, and approval of the best people of all parties . . . View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. View quote
John W. Campbell
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. View quote
Barbra Streisand
There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all! View quote
Ben Stiller
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. (Meg Whitman)
I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration. View quote
Meg Whitman
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings. View quote
Erich Fromm
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. View quote
Michael Parenti
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud. View quote
Julius Streicher
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Proof by analogy is fraud. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud. View quote
Mitchell Zuckoff
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities. (Harry Markopolos)
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. View quote
James Surowiecki
The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard's legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world's greatest con man. Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character. View quote
Lawrence Wright
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual. View quote
William Graham Sumner