Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

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.

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

I had to cheat, steal, beg, borrow and lie….

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance

If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he's still able to control it and use it as if it was his income to help his interests, then you're starting to see a bigger legal problem.

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

The whole thing we've been going through, and I hate to say it but, the whole thing we're going through - Bernie Sanders was a rigged deal - the whole thing is one big fix, it's one big fix.

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.