Fraud Quotes

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The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is… — Ludwig von Mises
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
WennerstrÃ¶m was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminalâ€“it was business. — Steig Larsson
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. — Carl Jung
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. — Elizabeth Gilbert
It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying… — Libba Bray
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy,… — Henry Miller
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given… — Anne Lamott
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and… — Mark Twain
Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after… — Mark Vonnegut
My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain… — David Foster Wallace
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he… — John Hodgman
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed… — Anne Lamott
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...) — Sarah Rees Brennan
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person,… — Stephen Fry
Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds. — Lauren Conrad
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,… — James A. Baldwin
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists… — Robert Anton Wilson
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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