Swindling Quotes

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. (Edmund Burke)
Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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
I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I sincerely believe ... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
As long as the bourgeois parliament remains a means of duping the workers, and phrases about "democracy” are used to cover up financial swindling and every kind of bribery (the particularly "subtle” brand of bribery the bourgeoisie practise with regard to writers, N. P. s, lawyers, and others is nowhere to be seen on so wide a scale as in the bourgeois parliament), we Communists are in duty bound to be in this very institution (which is supposed to express the people's will but actually covers up the deception of the people by the wealthy) to untiringly expose this deception, and expose each and every case of the Renners and Co.'s desertion to the capitalists, against the workers. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. (Abraham Maslow)
We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
By art and swindling here Men live for half the year; By swindling and by art They live the other part. View quote
Giovanni Maria Cecchi
Compeyson's business was the swindling, hand writing forging, stolen bank-note passing, and such-like. All sorts of traps as Compeyson could set with his head, and keep his own legs out of and get the profits from and let another man in for, was Compeyson's business. He'd no more heart than a iron file he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil afore mentioned. View quote
Charles Dickens