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
I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation. — Bryan Swanson Copy Share Image
Sadly however, I discovered in one particular case that a colleague went and paid the bribe on my behalf, just to get… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe… — Jonathan Swift 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
A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Successful ... 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
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
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies… — 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
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
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes… — Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey Copy Share Image
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh 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
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano… — John Gokongwei 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
The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
