Bribe Quotes

99 quotes by 86 authors

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without… — Susanna Clarke
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your… — L. Ron Hubbard
If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in… — Reverend Ike
You canâ€™t lose with the stuff I use!â€; â€œSome may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn… — Reverend Ike
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery. — Anne Holm
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts… — Lord Acton
James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007 — Nuhu Ribadu
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me… — Mary Doria Russell
A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts. — Samuel Chadwick
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. — Barbara Tuchman
Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself. — Napoleon Hill
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel,… — Cherie Priest
The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place. — Stefan Molyneux
Society has no bribe for me... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe… — Will Durant
What Iâ€™m talking about is more than recompense for past injusticesâ€”more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What Iâ€™m talking… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that… — Mark Twain
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. — John Dryden
Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? How much — Groucho Marx

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