“The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. — Samuel Johnson 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
God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder 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
“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
Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. — James Alan Gardner 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
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace… — Homer 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
“Just a donation request to support the brave public servants of Los Angeles during this time of budgetary shortfalls.” — Kate Danley 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
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
The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom;… — John le Carre 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
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
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 shifted in my chair as Dad waited for a response. He seemed determined, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan 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
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
“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
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
“{ 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
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
A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts. — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
