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“To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.”

States Break Conditions Fields Activity Tasks Competition Investing Wide Deception Fraud Monopoly

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.”

Men White Violence Victory Murder Fraud White Man Intimidation

Book:On Lynchings

Source: On Lynchings

“Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.”

Should Nations United Involved Program Dollars Corruption Oil Administration Fraud Investigation United Nations Taxpayers Hype

Author:John Ensign

“Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.”

Source: Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism

“A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.”

People May Two Ends Play Reality Jesus Faults Sincere Fraud Hypocrite

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement”

Needs Shows Corruption Oil Reform Fraud Mismanagement

Author:Norm Coleman

“Worship power - you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.”

Needs Feels Persons Ends Feelings Found Stupid Worship Smart Weak Intellect Fraud Verge Power Over Others

Author:David Foster Wallace

“It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.”

Pay Fraud Payment Hype Borrowing

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”

Failing Honesty Honor Integrity Succeed Ethics Fraud Fairness Wise Man Once Said

Author:Sophocles

“Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.”

Secure Fraud Unjust Hype Wise Man Once Said

Author:Sophocles

“Fraud is the daughter of greed.”

Daughter Greed Fraud

Author:John Grant

“Whatcha gonna do to this? You may be older than me, but you're new to this. Cause I been out there, queen of MC's, When your man was walkin' round in mocknecks and Lee's. While you were over here perpetratin' a fraud, I was overseas on the charts with Boy George. You're the beginner, Shante's the winner, Havin' other competition for dinner. Sit you on the table with a plate and cup, Say grace...and then eat your ass up.”

Men May Causes Boys Grace Tables Competition Rounds Hip Hop Rap Dinner Ass Cups Winner Queens Fraud Plates Beginners

Author:Roxanne Shante

“Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!”

Kind I Can Tired Hip Hop Rap Passing Passings Bored Liars Fraud Lyrical Cords Mics Tripping Wannabes Tripping Over

Author:KRS-One

“It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control.”

People Thinking Country Poor Mistake Rich Military Benefits Complexes Welfare Fraud Dictator Poor People Bankers Military Industrial Complex

Author:Ron Paul

“War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.”

War Reality Remember Causes Loss Fool Awful Description Fraud Veteran Nobility Wretched Glorify Valor

Author:John McCain

“It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.”

World Looks War States Light Nations Fear Justice United United States Struggle Threat Hunger Surrender Combat Fraud Panic Suspicion Hopelessness Futility Life Struggle Freeman

Author:Omar N. Bradley

“But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”

Ifs Giving Should Humans Mean States Body Spirit Doors Effects Honest Paper Historical Species Injustice Credit Pursuit Ruins Fraud Commerce Prey Human Body Liquor Infancy Paper Money

Author:George Washington

“The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.”

States Purpose Nations United United States Historical Fraud United Nations

Author:John E. Rankin

“To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.”

Men War Law Political Force Justice Common Virtue Notion Injustice Every Man Fraud Unjust Cardinals Leviathan Justice And Injustice

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles”

Grows Discovery Investing Assets Fraud Bubbles Parallels Propensity

Author:Charles P. Kindleberger

“What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as they should have been, that it is time to stop and see how they truly are. The making known of malfeasance, whether by the arrest or surrender of the miscreant, or by one of those other forms of confession, flight or suicide, is important as a signal that the euphoria has been overdone. The stage of overtrading may well come to an end. The curtain rises on revulsion, and perhaps discredit.”

“Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.”

Political Natural Results Economy Trade Appearance Fraud Replaced Expansion Enrichment Political Economy

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details.”

Doe Government Earth Political United Company Willing Details Corporations Fraud Federal Government Accounting Congressman

Author:Neal Boortz

“We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and it was encouraging to find that no Hoosier school district had inflicted his book on its students.”

Book States School Law Teach Students Fraud American History Textbooks Oversight School Districts Hoosiers

Author:Mitch Daniels

“The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.”

Thinking Wells Social Identity Asking Wine Fake Fraud Toys Femininity Manufacturing Undone Drinkers New Toys

Book:Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

Source: Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

“The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no causes bit its conclusions; will not support the Administration, but criticize it; will oppose all frauds and shams wherever or whatever they are; will advocate principles and ideas rather than prejudices and partisanship.”

People Ideas Causes Bits Party Principles Support Prejudice Conclusion Administration Posts Criticize Fraud Organs Partisanship Republicanism

Author:Joseph Pulitzer

“Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.”

Mind Magic Possibility Poet Masters Lovers Permanent Fraud Magician Mazes

Author:Adam Gopnik

“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 selfishness of men are perpetual.”

Men Cases Crime Connections Greed Financial Selfishness Fraud Perpetual Hype Swindling

Book:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”

Long Games Capitalism Competition Deception Fraud Social Responsibility Rules Of The Game Corporate Social Responsibility

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.”

Government Law Protect Function Army Police Court Property Criminals Objectives Rational Settling Contracts Fraud Disputes Protect You Breach Invaders

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.”

Should Government Fraud Regulation Taxation Concealed Refrain Federal Reserve Worthlessness

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.”

Persons Self Form Deception Fraud Deceived Self Deception

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.”

Wells Heart Matter Individual Fans My Heart I Realized Grades Fraud Head And Heart

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.”

People War Real Mass Evidence Financial Fraud Conspiracy Distracted Annoyed

Author:Julian Assange

“One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.”

Persons Christian Christianity Atheism Fellows Conviction Burden Positive Atheism Smell Burning Things To Do Torture Hypocrisy Fraud Burned Disputes Quarrels Qualified

Author:Russell Baker

“Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.”

Men Mean Use Feelings Political Turns Politics Produce Factors Boredom Manipulation Fraud Fairness Exploitation Commodity Psychics Destroyers Cripples Trickery Triviality

Author:Erich Fromm

“Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.”

Fraud Suspicion Flavor Hype

Author:C. S. Forester

“I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.”

Thinking Two Common Genius Unique Constant Certainty Burning Delusion Fraud Epic Contradictory Speeding Simultaneous

Author:Scott Lynch

“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.”

Existence Particular Commit Guilty Ease Injury Deceit Fraud Deceiving

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.”

Men Should Stills Lying Artist Opinion Men And Women Organization Claims Repeats Insult Deceit Awards Fraud Falsehood Wounded Gross Medal Con Artist

Author:David Rice

“Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.”

May Nations Subjects Program Abuse Currents Harm Soil Fraud Exposed Hype Format Lottery

Author:Bill Jenkins

“Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.”

Culture Responsibility Media Abuse Financial Corporations Fraud Civics Aggravation Degrade Civic Responsibility

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.”

President Taxes Waste Abuse Strategy Dollars Congress Fraud Irresponsible Hype Exit Tax Dollars

Author:Russ Carnahan

“The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.”

Knows Want Writing Stories Courses Fraud Good Story Good Writers Likeable

Author:R. A. Lafferty

“Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.”

Years Three Gone Crisis Forgiving Financial Executives Jail Fraud Three Years Pointing Forgive Me Horrific Financial Crisis

Author:Charles Ferguson

“Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.”

Fraud Pretense

Author:Benjamin Cardozo

“It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.”

Littles Persons Together Speak Bits Honest Personality Little Bit Genuine Fraud Artificial

Author:Sebastian Horsley

“Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.”

“He who wins through fraud is not a winner.”

Winning Winner Fraud

Author:Umar

“Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.”

People Opportunity Cases Taken Advantage Accountability Openness Fraud Reverse Pursued Suspended Precaution Taken Advantage

Author:Marta Andreasen

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