Embezzlement Quotes:

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Successful, Stuff, Way, Embezzlement

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

- Finley Peter Dunne

topic: War, Men, Games, Larceny, Embezzlement

...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

- Noah Webster

source: Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

topic: Selfish, Men, Law, Squandering, Not Voting

People say that the monetary system produces incentive.  This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering.  You have to look at the entire picture.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: War, People, Greed, Monetary System, Causes Of Poverty

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

- Li Jinhua

topic: Loss, Serious, Problem, Embezzlement

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

- Shirin Ebadi

source: "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

topic: Iran, People, Want, Embezzlement, Free Elections

Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement by public officials, especially in developing countries, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

- Thomas Pogge

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Country, Banking, Developing Countries, Multinational Corporations, Embezzlement

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

- Ezra Pound

topic: Hands, Law, America, Jurists, Embezzlement

to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank.

- Teresa Bloomingdale

source: Teresa Bloomingdale (1983). “Up a Family Tree”, Bantam Books

topic: Balance, Records, Months, Each Month, Embezzlement

[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

- Paul Murray Kendall

topic: Secret, Boards, Agents, Embezzlement, Board Meetings