Money Quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Money was what you stuffed into the greedy spokes of the world as bribery, so it wouldn't run you over.”

— Elyse Singleton

“A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.”

— Robertson Davies

“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

“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

“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

“By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.”

— Anonymous

“In protecting their wealth men are tight-fisted, but when it comes to the matter of time, in the case of the one thing in…

— Seneca

“Stop cheating to be rich. Stop stealing to be wealthy. Stop siphoning the valuables of other people to keep for yourself.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I know enough about human nature to know that people generally prefer to find the most corrupt way of doing things possible, given enough…

— Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones Ascent

“law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law”

— Oliver Goldsmith

“How do you bribe, buy, or otherwise own a man of principle who values honor and faith above all things? I know. Foolish question.”

— Tonny K. Brown

“Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or…

— K.J. Parker