"[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance,……" — Adam Johnson
"[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes."
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18 Quotes by Adam Johnson
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Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard…
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.
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The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were…
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Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had…
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever…
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand…
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A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put…
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More Bribe Quotes
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one of 99 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
— John le Carre
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
— Claud Cockburn
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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them…
— Sun Tzu
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation…
— Ayn Rand
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or…
— Walter Lippmann
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a…
— Rajneesh
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For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities…
— Rajneesh
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and…
— Sun Tzu
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
— Thornton Wilder
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Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely…
— James Madison
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