Bribe Quotes

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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
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe. — Claud Cockburn
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them… — Sun Tzu
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government… — Ayn Rand
Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the… — Walter Lippmann
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -… — Abraham Lincoln
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It… — Rajneesh
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults… — Rajneesh
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will… — Sun Tzu
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the… — James Madison
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
Bribes and boy bands. Thatâ€™s all you need to be a babysitter. — Mindy Kaling
So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes… — Stephen Colbert
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason… — Kent Nerburn
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending… — Fred Reed
There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever… — Richard Branson
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of… — Marsilio Ficino

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