Swindling Quotes

• I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Army, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.277

  92 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Todos los demás estafadores de la tierra no son nada para los que se estafan a sí mismos, y con tales pretensiones me engañé a mí mismo. Sin duda una cosa curiosa. Que yo tomara inocentemente media corona mala de fabricación ajena, es bastante razonable; ¡pero que yo considerara a sabiendas la moneda espuria de mi propia fabricación, como dinero bueno!

  Charles Dickens

  Yo, Palabras De Sabiduría, Coronas

  Charles Dickens (1881). "Grandes esperanzas", p.254

  29 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  Edmund Burke

  Forgiving, Adultery, Murder

  26 Copiar cita

• Es más peligroso ser un gran profeta o poeta que promover veinte empresas para estafar a la gente sencilla sus ahorros.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Simple, Twenties, Saving

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2927, e-artnow

  20 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• El sexo es la única cosa que realmente no se puede estafar; y es el centro de la peor estafa de todas, la estafa emocional.... El sexo arremete contra la emoción falsificada, y es implacable, devastador contra el falso amor.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sexo, emocional, falso amor

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). "Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'", p.313, Cambridge University Press

  25 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• The nature of business is swindling.

  August Bebel

  Empresas

  18 Copiar cita

• 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

  Men, Hype, Greed

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.41, Ludwig von Mises Institute

  18 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Autumn, Men, Firsts

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  19 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Y que ningún gobierno imagine que despojarlo del poder de defraudar a sus súbditos es privarlo de un privilegio valioso. Un sistema de estafa nunca puede ser duradero, e infaliblemente al final producirá muchas más pérdidas que beneficios.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Loss, Government, Long

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.238

  16 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Todos los demás estafadores de la tierra no son nada para los que se estafan a sí mismos, y con tales pretensiones me engañé a mí mismo.

  Charles Dickens

  Yo, Expectativas, Tierra

  Charles Dickens (1881). "Grandes esperanzas", p.254

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

  Karl Marx

  Selfish, Power, Men

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.115, Courier Corporation

  14 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

  Jean Anouilh

  Paris, Dinner, Way

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

  Ignazio Silone

  Privilege, States, Intrigue

  10 Copiar cita

• In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead of automatic currencies based on gold, people are forced to take managed currencies based on guile. Instead of precious metals they hold paper promises whose value falls with every bureaucratic whim. And they are suavely assured that only hopelessly antiquated minds dream of returning to truth and honesty and solvency and gold.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Dream, Honesty, Lying

  "What You Should Know about Inflation".

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Los hombres se dejan la vida en luchas políticas desgarradoras, o se matan en guerras civiles, o se torturan en las cárceles secretas de la Gestapo, no para establecer un paraíso con calefacción central, aire acondicionado y luz artificial, sino porque quieren un mundo en el que los seres humanos se amen unos a otros en lugar de estafarse y asesinarse.

  George Orwell

  Guerra, Lucha, Corazón

  George Orwell Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). "Las obras completas de George Orwell: He intentado decir la verdad, 1943-1944"

  15 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Practice, Wish

  Address by Theodore Roosevelt Before The Convention Of The National Progressive Party in Chicago, www.ssa.gov. August 1912.

  19 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

  Mark Twain

  Art, Inspiration, Home

  4 Copiar cita