Perpetrated Quotes
71 Perpetrated quotes by 64 unique authors
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I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.
— Neal Ascherson
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As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe…
— Giacomo Casanova
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There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society.
— Stephen Fry
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The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
— Karen Joy Fowler
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The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to…
— Yehuda Bauer
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It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his…
— Simone Veil
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The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of…
— Unknown Author
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
— Karl Marlantes
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He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
— Iain Pears
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support…
— Ayn Rand
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One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
— Clint Eastwood
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If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their…
— E.C. Riegel
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
— Friedrich Engels
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We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not…
— R. D. Laing
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Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.
— David Rakoff
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The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and…
— Phil Cornwell
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All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but…
— William Saroyan
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The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
— S. Robson Walton
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over…
— Gary Coleman
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[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human…
— Charles Kimball
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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that…
— Barack Obama
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The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns…
— Irina Bokova
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
— Rachel Cusk
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President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
— Clint Eastwood
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