Swindle Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on…
— Karl Marx
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A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
— Kurt Schwitters
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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…
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as…
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry,…
— Daniel Guerin
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Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius…
— Zhuangzi
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What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects…
— Joseph Sobran
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What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved)…
— John Bertram Phillips
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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life…
— Bruce Catton
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If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame…
— Standing Bear
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If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
— Pindar
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When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes…
— Tawfiq al-Hakim
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The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and…
— Red Cloud
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Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
— Mitchell Zuckoff
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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to…
— Honore de Balzac
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
— Imelda Marcos
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There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your…
— Saul Bellow
Who Wrote These Swindle Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Swindle Quotes as follows: