#fraud

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#categories #expected #fit #fraudulent #into

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#every #feels #fraudulent #i #other

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. ↗

— Sophocles

#fraud #honor #rather #succeed #than

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#act #again #bill #called #capitol

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about. ↗

— Ben Stein

#agree #apples #bad #corporate #exposing

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#because #crime #criminal #criminal law #denounce

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. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#connection #crimes #each #financial #fraud

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#beautiful #cinema #fraud #most #most beautiful

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

— Publilius Syrus

#fraud #pay #unable

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#between #deny #difference #frauds #i