George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force."
Fraud quotes
Fraud
60 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."
Stephen Harper
Politician
"There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud."
John Grant
Author
"A bad forgery's the ultimate insult."
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"Fraud is the ready minister of injustice."
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"Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded."
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"If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud."
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"Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it."
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"If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud."
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"Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks."
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"May is a pious fraud of the almanac."
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"Fraud is the daughter of greed."
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"From a just fraud God turneth not away."
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"I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I."
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"A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]"
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"The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud."
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"If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!"
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