Fraud Quotes – Insights and Reflections

"Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps, though sure, are slow and solemn, and she has neither vigour nor activity enough to pursue and overtake her enemy…"

Thomas Francklin

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes"

Jonathan Swift

"A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality."

Solon

"Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession."

Thomas Sowell

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

Denis Diderot

"It is better to be slapped by the truth than kissed by a lie."

Unknown

"Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth."

Eduard Douwes Dekker

"You can recognize a good idea by the fact that it gets stolen."

Gerhard Uhlenbruck

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

Oscar Wilde

"Science itself is dead. The university has become a brothel of third-party funding.
I mean that quite seriously — a colleague of mine once said this when her rector at a university in the Ruhr region drove away in a sports car wearing a gold chain.

We each have our little room there, and we make a career if we let ourselves be used by whoever provides the funding.

In other words, the agenda and the criteria for quality are outsourced. The criterion of truth becomes corrupted by the criterion of external funding.

Not everyone who accepts external funding behaves this way, of course. But the metaphor of the brothel was meant to illustrate that love can be corrupted when it becomes something that can be bought — and that science can be corrupted when it becomes something that can be bought."

Matthias Burchardt

"Evil cannot create anything new; it can only corrupt and destroy what good forces have invented or created."

J.R.R. Tolkien

"I am experiencing clown world fatigue. Prolonged exposure to this level of stupidity and propaganda eventually takes its toll. We have caught them lying so many times, yet we remain participants in this theater.
I long for the day when my mind is no longer subjected to psychological warfare"

Unbekannt

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."

Henry Louis Mencken

"Mathematics is the perfect way to fool oneself."

Albert Einstein

"I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Donald Trump

"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices."

George Orwell

"For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular."

H. L. Mencken

"There is so much that the average person doesn't know about the medical profession, that if they did, they would probably never again go for any treatment, test or check- up, because the profession has been hijacked by the pharmaceutical industry, & geared simply to create lifetime customers."

Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn