Welcome to our collection of insightful fraud quotes. Fraud, whether in the realms of finance, relationships, or society at large, is a phenomenon that has plagued humanity throughout history. From subtle deceit to elaborate schemes, fraudulent activities can have profound consequences, shaking the foundations of trust and integrity upon which societies thrive.
In the world of business, fraud can manifest in various forms, from accounting manipulations to Ponzi schemes, leaving behind a trail of financial ruin and shattered reputations. Similarly, in personal relationships, deceit and betrayal can leave lasting scars, eroding the bonds of trust that are essential for healthy human connections. As such, understanding the nature of fraud and its implications is crucial for safeguarding oneself and one’s community against its detrimental effects. Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes from various perspectives that shed light on this complex and pervasive issue.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. Jean-Luc Godard
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget. John Bolton
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud. Norman Finkelstein
I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud. Lori Lightfoot
I wouldn’t go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds. Winslow Homer
But I’m acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today’s world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. Armistead Maupin
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. Bill Ackman
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. Publilius Syrus
I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud. Lynn Westmoreland
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. Willem de Kooning
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. Otto von Bismarck
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. John McCain
Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs. Michael Leunig
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. John Edward Redmond
The giant fraud that is Britain’s education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves. Peter Hitchens
Why, I ask, isn’t it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it? David Riesman
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. Ida B. Wells
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. Ben Stein
Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement. Loretta Lynch
The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence. Emily Thornberry
Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings. Alex Pareene
Is not the brand of ‘double-dealer’ stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage? John Quincy Adams
Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance. Max Keiser
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. John Dalberg-Acton
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that. Pearl Bailey
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. Phaedrus
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. Robert Kiyosaki
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter’s deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain. Brendan I. Koerner
Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing? Jed S. Rakoff
We’re going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We’re going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will. Eric Schneiderman
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. Ted Nugent
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. Ron Lewis
Most of ‘big data’ is a fraud because it is really ‘dumb data.’ Peter Thiel
WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war. Jesse Ventura
A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession’s notoriously low wages, however, it’s probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case. Brendan I. Koerner
Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct. Sheldon Whitehouse
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I’m annoying, and a phony. Anne Lamott
Democrats have long been the party of voter fraud. Charlie Kirk
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. C. S. Forester
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it. P. J. O’Rourke
With a common-sense approach, we can reduce waste, fraud and abuse, cut back on unnecessary bureaucracy and provide for the pillars of a strong economy and life in our state. Jaime Harrison
Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud. Sheldon Whitehouse
It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m just going, ‘Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud, and that I don’t deserve any of what I’ve achieved. I can’t possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone’s expectations of me are.’ Emma Watson
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
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. Barbra Streisand
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.
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. John Grisham
I like to call myself a voluntaryist. That means that I think that all human interaction should be on a voluntary basis. And that nobody should be able to use force or fraud in any human interaction whatsoever. Roger Ver
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. Benito Mussolini
Nicolas Maduro is a fraud. He is a fake. He is a charlatan. Dan Bongino
Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we’re on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance. Maria Konnikova
I do believe we have voter fraud in America. Jeff Sessions
I’m a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn’t study acting at a drama school. Celia Imrie
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth – about others. Robert Green Ingersoll
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud. Charles Duhigg
I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother – what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud – what is he? William Lloyd Garrison
Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives. Tim Murphy
With Bitcoin, every transaction is publicly verified, so many risks are eliminated, including chargeback fraud or ‘friendly fraud.’ This is when a customer purchases something online with a credit card; waits to receive the goods or service, then requests a chargeback refund. The bank then forcibly takes the funds out of the merchant’s account. Perianne Boring
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. Virgil Goode
A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don’t apply in the City than they do for you and me. Emily Thornberry
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. James Surowiecki
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. George Santayana
Every album, I’m worried that I’m a dork and a fraud – ‘What if I can’t sing anymore?’ Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it’s okay to suck, and move forward. Pink
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. Charles Curtis
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
There will always be waste, fraud, and abuse. That’s just life. Scott Garrett
We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up. Kate Brown
No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby receive undue tax benefits. That’s a criminal false statement and possibly a fraud. Sheldon Whitehouse
If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters? Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Why would the Obama campaign officials oppose any effort to ensure the legitimacy of a campaign contribution? It’s the same reason they oppose voter ID laws. The Obama campaign evidently believes that election fraud and campaign finance fraud are permissible tools for the purpose of retaining power. Tom Fitton
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. Linus Pauling
I was a very bad accountant; I didn’t care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training. Joanne Harris
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. Sophocles
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it. James Meredith
Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research. Heinrich Rohrer
In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don’t think we were thinking about that at all when we got started. If we had been worried about that, the net might have been better today, but we might not have even got there. Bob Kahn
I feel like a fraud… My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name. Ashton Kutcher
For the people who are offended about the fact that we have a bunch of criminals and criminal enablers and buffoons and scheisters and con men and frauds and real estate frauds running our country and our government, they like to hear that they’re not the only ones that feel that way. Jim Cornette
Deep down, all directors feel like frauds – because it’s built into the nature of the job. You’re the jack of all trades and the master of none. The cameraman knows the camera, the sound man knows the sound equipment – and you? You can’t do anything: You can’t do the acting, you can’t dress the set, you don’t record the sound or shoot the images. Paul Greengrass
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Frederick William Robertson
Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they’re caught. Eric Schneiderman
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. Gerald Vann
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. Miroslav Volf
While introducing AI into the government will save money through optimizing processes, it should also be deployed to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. Will Hurd
Fraud really thrives in moments of great social change and transition. We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. That gives con artists huge opportunities. People lose their frame of reference for what can and can’t be real. Maria Konnikova
A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. Alan Greenspan
Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It’s a marketing term that really means ‘business as usual.’ Paul Watson
We’re looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, voter registration fraud, voter intimidation, suppression, and looking at the vulnerabilities of the various elections we have in each of the 50 states. Kris Kobach
There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. Edward Kennedy
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of ‘spirituality’ or ‘mysticism’ to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem – because millions of people have had experiences for which ‘spiritual’ and ‘mystical’ seem the only terms available. Sam Harris
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken
Don’t be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They’re qualified to. Stephen Colbert
It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. Ben Stein
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie
It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are issued and circulate as equivalent to the cash supposedly represented by those receipts. Murray Rothbard
The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet. Tom Parker Bowles
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles
