Higher Expectations Quote by Barry Unsworth

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught…

— Lincoln Steffens

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

— Anonymous

“Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences.\”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The…

— Garry Wills

“The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Class in England is no more determined by wealth than it is by occupation.”

— Kate Fox

“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money…

— Ayn Rand

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any…

— Isaac Asimov

Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.

— David McCullough

“Bribes over two dollars are tax deductible”

— Melina Marchetta

“In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not…

— Donna Tartt