White Collar Crime Quotes

“Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If one tallied all of the losses suffered by victims of robberies, burglaries, larcenies, and motor vehicle thefts combined, the figure wouldn't even approach what is taken from hardworking Americans' pockets by employers who violate the nation's labor laws.”
― Kathryn Edin, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

“White-collar crime is not new to India. The scale is.”
― RV Raman, Fraudster

“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the Hamptons through a crude fraud scheme that decimated their retirement funds, caused property values in their neighborhoods to collapse and caused over four million people to be put in foreclosure.”
― Matt Taibbi

“Month to month there were many discrepancies carried forward without resolution through what I jokingly called my “999 (or Nick Leeson)” account.”
― Jon Edgell, Bust

“The perfect criminal, should he or she exist, would be the one who is never apprehended - indeed, the one whose crimes may be huge but unnoticed, or indeed miscategorized not as crimes at all because they are so powerful they sway the law in their favor, or so clever they discover an immoral opportunity for criminal enterprise before the legislators notice it. Such forms of criminality may be indistinguishable, at a distance, from lawful business; the criminal paragon of upper-class virtue, a face-man for Forbes.”
― Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue

“Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.”
― Harry Markopolos

“Too many crooks spoil the Roth.”
― Brian Spellman

“I do like Captain Beefheart (Trout Mask Replica is a misunderstood masterpiece!) and I do have two kids but I’ve never written a prize winning novel called Oh, Bollocks!”
― Jon Edgell, Bust

“Society must show that blue-collar crime never pays. Insidious white-collar crime pays very well, and nothing is declared. It's the same reason why Financial Education, probably the most important subject of all, is absent from the general school curriculum - to keep the have-nots ignorant and the establishment's riches safe.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A license is what you get,
when the government steals your rights away from you,
and then sells them back.”
― Mark Edge

“The Hemlock Toast
by Stewart Stafford

The eternal orphan, courtesy of
Clean-room medieval alchemists.
The mirror's software crash loop,
Coining infinity’s counterfeit lucre.

Chimera revenue streams pour in
From the yawning, ethics-bored abyss.
A blind taste test of phantom brew —
A gun barrel spun with a hemlock bullet.

Reading market forecasts in our entrails,
On altars of a bought and sold society.
Accept the corrupt transfusion — deal done.
The commodified jury was never about truth.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford