#fraud

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#behind #columns #felt #fraud #greeks

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#complete #fraud #intimidation #man #murder

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. ↗

— Sophocles

#gained #never #secure #things #through

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#critical #did #expertise #father #florida

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

I cannot accept fraud. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

#cannot #fraud #i

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#fear #fraud #friend #greed #imagination

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#after #carried #declaration #destroyed #disregarded

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