Quotes About Chicanery

#1. Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

John Adams

#2. Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

John Adams

#3. In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.

Jon Krakauer

#4. The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

Asif Kapadia

#5. During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.

Angela Merkel

#6. To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Ouida

#7. It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

Mike Farrell

#8. I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

William Whipple

#9. It is the sex angle that sells stories, that makes news. give people scandal allied to sex and it appeals far more than any mere political chicanery or fraud. (Hercule Poirot)

Agatha Christie

#10. Colonial America had looked upon (lawyers) as mere tradesmen who earned a questionable living by cleverness and chicanery.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#11. If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.

Alex Pareene

#12. [R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.

Will Durant

#13. Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

David Remnick

#14. He looked natural and unrushed, and had obviously had a lot of experience at either chicanery or skulduggery, depending on which word was better suited for describing officially sanctioned mischief.

Jeff Lindsay

#15. Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

Eric Alterman

#16. Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

John Adams

#17. If one knows the truth that all that one gives to others is giving only to oneself, who indeed will not be a virtuous person and perform the kind act of giving to others? Since everyone is one's own Self, whoever does whatever to whomever is doing it only to himself.

Ramana Maharishi

#18. Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig Von Mises

#19. I hate behind the scenes ass muthafuckas.

Kedy B.

#20. Adopting an attitude of universal responsibility is essentially a personal matter. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in our daily life.

Dalai Lama XIV

#21. The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

Lorenzo Snow

#22. In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Jonathan Lethem

#23. Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

Seal

#24. For official purposes, these children do not exist.

Robert Muchamore

#25. The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

Timothy Keller

#26. Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

Malcolm Campbell