The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. — Ouida Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Just a donation request to support the brave public servants of Los Angeles during this time of budgetary shortfalls.” — Kate Danley Copy Share Image
“But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in… — Shaffi Mather Copy Share Image
…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man… — Reverend Ike Copy Share Image
“Although he could have shot me or turned us back, he did what I gambled every honorable man forced to take a… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to… — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Money has different names !!! In Church its called (offering), In School its (fee), In marriage it's called (lobola), In divorce (alimony),… — Arcine Arciniegas Copy Share Image
The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if you win this one I can put a word in for you.You know, extra carrots and that sort of thing,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Bob Torricelli, Democrat member of the Senate, was basically about to be thrown out of office on corruption charges, and he went… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
