Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them… — Gautama Buddha 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
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm going to shit in a box and send it to Wolverhampton council! We'll see how acceptable they find that! Anyway, I'm… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives… — Graham Greene 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
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
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled."… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here… — Emma Goldman 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
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
