Top 100 Bribe Quotes
#1. Progressives wrote the Common Core standards, used money from the 2009 stimulus bill to bribe states into adopting them, and are now "vetting" the tests that will eventually shape the curriculum used by school districts all across the United States.
Glenn Beck
#2. We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis. She
Frank Herbert
#3. God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
Stephen King
#4. the rich just bribe their way out. So yes, as far as the rulers are concerned, it works.
Iain M. Banks
#6. It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
Samuel Richardson
#7. If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.
Jane Goodall
#8. 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 a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
Lord Acton
#9. It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
Wang Shi
#10. Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.
Napoleon Hill
#11. The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
John Dryden
#12. I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
Evan Hunter
#13. The Dead are a larger army than any ever assembled, and they follow no leader, fear no threat, and accept no bribe or compromise. The Dead are the silent majority, and should they ever decide to say something, it will be the new law of the land.
Isaac Marion
#14. Take any segment of population, impose strict yet clear definitions on their particular characteristics, then target them for compliance. Bribe the weak to expose the strong. Kill the strong, and the rest are yours. Move on to the next segment.
Steven Erikson
#15. I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.
Richard Rossi
#16. There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe
so they can throw you in jail.
P. J. O'Rourke
#17. She is the witch you burned
by daylight and crept from your home
to consult & bribe at night. The love
that tortured you you blamed on her.
Margaret Atwood
#18. I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
Jorge Luis Borges
#19. As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
Gore Vidal
#20. Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Edward Coke
#21. 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 it into staying. You can only embrace it when it
arrives and give it away when it comes to you
Kent Nerburn
#22. It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
Jim Garrison
#23. If only one man is left standing, a bribe cannot bite.
Mary Lawrence
#24. She slid of out his grasp. "If we live through tomorrow, you'll get the rest."
He didn't know whether to laugh or roar. "Are you trying to bribe me into surviving?
Sarah J. Maas
#26. In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.
Vladimir Sorokin
#27. King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors' hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden's usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn't growing a brain.
Kristin Cashore
#28. You do realize trying to bribe an officer is a felony, right?"
She cocked a brow at him as she slid her helmet back over her head and slipped her sunglasses on, starting the engine. "Who said anything about bribing you? Maybe I was trying to poison you.
T.J. Kline
#29. James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007
Nuhu Ribadu
#30. Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
Samuel Johnson
#31. It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They're not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit.
Paul Bloom
#32. You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!
Humbert Wolfe
#33. Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.
Joyce Carol Oates
#34. What that judge did is immoral. Here in Panama when we bribe somebody we expect loyalty.
John Le Carre
#35. Accept little bribes,
and you have little integrity.
Reject some bribes,
and you have selective integrity.
Reject every bribe,
and you have great integrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. You can't bribe me with pie." Before he'd finished the sentence, his stomach grumbled loudly in a plea for the pie.
The men grinned.
"We all know you're a pie ho," Mr. Elroy said.
Jill Shalvis
#37. Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder
#38. The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.
Thornton Wilder
#39. A magnificent natural view is a pink curtain. Open the curtain; you will then see the most horrible life struggles over there! Could it be that the beauty of the nature is a bribe given to us by God to forget the atrocities of the nature?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it's not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can't be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of course not!
Joseph Heller
#41. Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
Ida Tarbell
#44. To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
John Webster
#46. Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age ...
Jonathan Swift
#47. Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
Gary North
#48. Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
Claud Cockburn
#49. The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.
Mark Twain
#50. Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe.
Robert A. Caro
#51. The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#52. A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
Chinua Achebe
#53. The Eskimos have thirty words for describing different kinds of snow, and modern Russian has about the same number of expressions to describe giving a bribe to a state official.
Victor Pelevin
#54. To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.
Frank Sinatra
#56. 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 instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu
#57. 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
#58. American officials held them up for three month until I paid the bribe (otherwise known as "Customs Duty").
Tom Carter
#60. He was convinced this was a bribe, a kickback, to some Pentagon big shot, and he wanted proof. But that was a tall order, even to someone as brilliant as your brother. It's a little like understanding algebraic combinatorics if you still don't get long division.
Joseph Finder
#61. Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani
#62. ... was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.
Sylvia Day
#63. I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
Ismail Kadare
#64. But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.
Tahir Shah
#65. I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
Al Lewis
#66. Someone tried to bribe me the other day," she muttered, thinking of Charles Monroe and his black silk robe.
"With?"
"Nothing as interesting as steak.
J.D. Robb
#67. Maybe we don't need a heavenly bribe or the fear of hell and damnation to make us behave decently. Maybe it would be healthier if people started believing in themselves instead.
Raymond Khoury
#68. That ticks me off!" She snapped. "Since when could you bribe me with treats like a fucking child."
I groaned, pinching the bridge of my nose. "So no smoothie then?"
"Mango, banana, orange and extra kiwi," she replied before hanging up.
J.J. McAvoy
#69. The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
Ouida
#70. Why did you buy me?"
He leaned back, steepling his fingers. "I didn't. You were a gift. An unwanted gift." His lips twitched. "A bribe, if you will.
Pepper Winters
#71. Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking.
Ada Maria Soto
#72. Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#74. I am nothing but the breath in and out of my nostrils, take it away and I am a slab of meat. Do whatever you set your heart to do as long as you have that breath within you, I cannot guarantee that you'll have it in the next minute. You cannot buy it or bribe somebody to give it to you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#75. Don't spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren't stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.
Carew Papritz
#76. During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
Imran Khan
#77. The public symbols and constant reminders of black subjugation were supported by whites across the political spectrum, though the plight of poor whites remained largely unchanged. For them, the racial bribe was primarily psychological.
Michelle Alexander
#78. The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.
Clive Thompson
#79. An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
Criss Jami
#80. Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.
Gautama Buddha
#81. If you finish eating this food, I'll get you a whole herd of giant donkeys."
"That's the strangest bribe I've ever heard of,
Ilona Andrews
#82. You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.
Hector Tobar
#83. 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 is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
Matthew Parris
#85. Have you ever tried to bribe a Korathi priest, Lukel?" Shuden asked pointedly.
Lukel looked around uncomfortably. "I'd rather not answer that question, thank
you.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. Yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music
Bob Marley
#87. Prince Brigan. And where's your Lady?"
"In her history lesson. She went without complaint and I've been trying to prepare myself for what it might mean. Either she's planning to bribe me about something or she's ill.
Kristin Cashore
#88. The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.
Peggy Noonan
#90. There are smart ways to success but no short cuts. Becoming successful is a process, and it's important that one moves through all the required steps. One cannot buy or bribe one's way to success; it needs to be earned.
Vishwas Chavan
#91. 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 into acting decently.
Mary Doria Russell
#92. I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.
Aman Mojadidi
#93. I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Graham Greene
#94. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Bribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.
Idries Shah
#95. Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
Alexander Pope
#96. If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me
I can see it
another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.
Daniel Handler
#97. Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Thomas Gray
#98. In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
Shaffi Mather
#99. Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
Gail Collins
#100. Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
Can bribe the poor possession of the day.
Homer
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