I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the… — Stefan Molyneux 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
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“As a system administrator, it's in your best interest to befriend data center technicians and bribe them with coffee, caffeinated soft drinks,… — Evi Nemeth Copy Share Image
“Why did you buy me?" He leaned back, steepling his fingers. "I didn't. You were a gift. An unwanted gift." His lips… — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only… — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by… — Edward Dyer Copy Share Image
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. — Barbara Tuchman 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
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
Washington continues to encourage ever more ill-considered lending in a misguided attempt to stave off needed market corrections. The currently proposed combination… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Here is where you get into the danger zone, when the government official starts talking about U.S. government business and then also… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Bribe is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The X makes it sound cool. — Bender (The Cartoon Character Copy Share Image
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I would make a new bribe every day if I thought staying her would make you happy.” — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want. — Richard Rossi Copy Share Image
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them. — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image