“Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that trimming and cooking are less reprehensible and more forgivable. Whatever the rationalization is, in the last analysis one can no more than be a bit dishonest than one can be a little bit pregnant. Commit any of these three sins and your scientific career is in jeopardy and deserves to be.” LittlesLastsScienceThreeBitsSinCareersSupportLittle BitDeserveArgumentAgreeCookingCommitAnalysisPregnantDishonestyJeopardyForgeryTrimming Author:Charles Thomas Jackson
“The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.” ExistenceCreationCreatorCertaintyTestamentHandwritingDeismForgeryDeist Book:The Thomas Paine Reader Source: The Thomas Paine Reader
“From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.” LongLyingStepsWrittenInfluenceLogicEssaysForgery Author:Umberto Eco
“American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.” WorldJewDebateDocumentsIrrelevantEldersProtocolForgeryZion Author:Gilad Atzmon
“Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.” IfsDoneFineImpulseGenerousRealisticImitationStemFine ThingsForgery Author:James Fenton
“Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.” KnowsLooksReasonRiskIdentityRewardsCriminalsChecksJailTheftArrestedSlimVery PopularForgeryIdentity Theft Author:Frank Abagnale