Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. — Joseph Conrad 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
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon 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
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down. — Larry Pressler 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
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve… — Susanna Clarke 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
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 these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.” — Suzy Kassem 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
To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in… — Frank Sinatra 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
“KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo… — Carew Papritz 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
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
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
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
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
You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty… — Reverend Ike Copy Share Image
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard… — Cherie Priest 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
There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property -… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested.… — Anonymous 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
