Swindling Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
— Edmund Burke
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Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The…
— Karl Marx
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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
— Jean Anouilh
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and…
— William Graham Sumner
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Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
— Mark Twain
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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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The nature of business is swindling.
— August Bebel
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale
— Thomas Jefferson
Who Wrote These Swindling Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Swindling Quotes as follows: