Bribe Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

— Virgil

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

— Samuel Johnson

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

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

— Thucydides

“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

“Generosity overpowers greed.”

— Bryce Courtenay

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that…

— Ayn Rand

“Finally, there came a time when everything that men had considered as inalienable became an object of exchange, of traffic and could be alienated.…

— Karl Marx

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

“Over against these generalizations we raise no objection, but there are many cases, in practical life, of doubtful nature. An act of charity, for…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“(...) personal prejudice and financial greed are the two great evils that threaten courts of law, and once they get the upper hand they…

— Thomas More

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression…

— Theodore Roosevelt