Fraud, Frauds Quotes

There are a lot of ways to practice the art of journalism, and one of them is to use your art like a hammer to destroy the right people — who are almost always your enemies, for one reason or another, and who usually deserve to be crippled, because they are wrong. This is a dangerous notion, and very few professional journalists will endorse it — calling it "vengeful" and "primitive" and "perverse" regardless of how often they might do the same thing themselves. "That kind of stuff is opinion," they say, "and the reader is cheated if it's not labelled as opinion." Well, maybe so. Maybe Tom Paine cheated his readers and Mark Twain was a devious fraud with no morals at all who used journalism for his own foul ends. And maybe H. L. Mencken should have been locked up for trying to pass off his opinions on gullible readers and normal "objective journalism." Mencken understood that politics — as used in journalism — was the art of controlling his environment, and he made no apologies for it. In my case, using what politely might be called "advocacy journalism," I've used reporting as a weapon to affect political situations that bear down on my environment.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

The best way to make money is to start a religion.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar at the bottom.

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny…

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Corruption was not merely political; it was financial, commercial, social.

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

History will remember the UPA-II government for its numerous scandals, scams, and corruption, probably the maximum number ever.

That million and a half of men, women, and children were carefully, prudently, and peacefully slain by the English Government. They died of hunger in the midst of abundance which their own hands created; and it is quite immaterial to distinguish those who perished in the agonies of famine itself from those who died by typhus fever, which in Ireland is always caused by famine. Further, this was strictly an artificial famine-that is to say, it was a famine which desolated a rich and fertile island that produced every year abundance and superabundance to sustain all her people and many more. The English, indeed, call that famine a dispensation of Providence, and ascribe it entirely to the blight of the potatoes. But potatoes failed in like manner all over Europe, yet there was no famine save in Ireland. The British account of the matter, then, is first a fraud; second, a blasphemy. The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine.

No enemy of free government is more dangerous and none so insidious as corruption.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

It is easier to mislead many men than one.

The Mexican oil and gas monopoly, Pemex, literally fuels corruption.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

Mr. Ten Percent

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.