Quotes with fraud

  • Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
  • 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 opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

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  • George Bernard Shaw A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • George Santayana 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 symbol, but a fraud.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
    Barbara Ann Radnofsky
    American politician, author and mediator (1956 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin 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 opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • François Rabelais Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Linus Pauling 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 people who support them.
    Linus Pauling
    American scientist (1901 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Edmund Burke Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Ackman Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Ben Stein If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Ben Stein It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bobby Fischer Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
    Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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