Best 219 quotes in «fraud quotes» category

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

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

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

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

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

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

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

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

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

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

Fraud makes the world go round.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.

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

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

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

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.

If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

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

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

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

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

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

It's so offensive that we have a man [Donald Trump] that has been accused by more than 10 women of sexual misconduct, not to mention fraud and bribery and all the other things that he's being investigated for, and he gets a total pass.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

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.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

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

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

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

the biggest ever scientific fraud

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.

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.

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?

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

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

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

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

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

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