Fraud Quotes

381 quotes by 307 authors

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued… — Sam Harris
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. — Thomas Hobbes
There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place… — Edward Kennedy
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. — Willem de Kooning
I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name. — Ashton Kutcher
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper… — Anne Lamott
But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the… — Armistead Maupin
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. — H. L. Mencken
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. — Moby
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. — Benito Mussolini
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. — V.S. Naipaul
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the… — Linus Pauling
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. — Frederick William Robertson
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to… — Salman Rushdie
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a… — George Santayana
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th.… — Jose Saramago
Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided… — Mark Skousen
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which… — Adam Smith
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other. — Stephen Sondheim

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