Quotes About Bribery

#1. I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

Bob Dylan

#2. When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

James Surowiecki

#3. Goodness than depends on fear of hell or fear of the policeman or fear of punishment is not goodness at all - it is simply cowardice. Goodness than depends on hope of reward or hope of praise or hope of heaven depends on bribery.

A.S. Neill

#4. my parents are very good at bribery.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#5. In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

Sallust

#6. One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#7. In the distance, a building explodes in flame. She has over a hundred men working this district, letting everyone feel the pain of real enforcement. Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. People have forgotten this.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#8. Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

John Le Carre

#9. He loathed the cruelty and brutality of its leaders, who had "gained power more by bribery, backstabbing, toadyism, and favoritism than by knowledge and competence.

Tennent H. Bagley

#10. 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

#11. One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.'-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup

Jamie Malanowski

#12. In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Michael Musto

#13. Consider this pronouncement, inscribed on an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 B.C.: Our earth is degenerate these days ... bribery and corruption abound, children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. Parenting is mostly bribery . . . and yelling.

Matthew Norman

#15. Dis is bribery, is it?" he whispered. "This is taxation,

Terry Pratchett

#16. Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles ... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. It was like... oral bribery or some shit. And not even for her. I was quite possibly the only teenage hormonal motherfucker on earth being guilt tripped into receiving head. Unwillingly...

AngstGoddess003

#18. Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.

Loretta Lynch

#19. Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching." - From an ancient Assyrian tablet.

Sidney Homer

#20. Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds,

Douglas Adams

#21. Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Penn Jillette

#22. In a place of extreme violence and devoid of order, the practical subsumes the principle. I drifted down the path of bribery and corruption endemic to the streets of Baghdad

Jason Whiteley

#23. Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the most important part of a new enterprise's starting capital.

David Satter

#24. William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'

Bill Dedman

#25. Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#26. Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery.

Sekar Arum

#27. Is this blackmail or bribery?"
"Neither. It's insurance."
"Insurance?"
"Yeah. That's twelve cups of coffee. Twelve trips to Grounds. Twelve chances to see you.

Kim Holden

#28. You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

Anne Holm

#29. But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

John Jay Hooker

#30. You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#31. Ah, bribery." He grinned at his niece. "is there anything it can't do?

Gina Damico

#32. If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

Eddie Griffin

#33. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
No one's immune to bribery.

Joanne Harris

#34. I do not spoil women ... I don't send them flowers and gifts ... I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

George Sanders

#35. Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Gore Vidal

#36. Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.

Bill Maher

#37. I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.

John McCain

#38. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

Douglas Adams

#39. If you work hard, and give up certain things, and yes, resort to bribery now and then, you'll be an arborist, or a sea anemonist, or anything else you want.

Anthony Marra

#40. If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

John Stuart Mill

#41. Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

Eliot Spitzer

#42. They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

Denis Kearney

#43. Ah, the smell of old money, bribery, and religion first thing in the morning," Abriella said in a long sigh. "Smells like home, girls.

Bethany-Kris

#44. If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

J.C. Ryle

#45. Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, I should have paid more.

David Ebershoff

#46. As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

Larry Hagman

#47. We must teach our people to reject gain from extortion, bribery, unrighteous grafts as something utterly abhorring.

Sunday Adelaja

#48. 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

#49. That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale - bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion - all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world's most seriously corrupt kings.

Kristin Cashore

#50. [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians ... bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm ...

Jesse Ventura

#51. Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.

James Altucher

#52. Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.

Umar

#53. Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived.

Vironika Tugaleva

#54. There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

Mike Mason

#55. Corruption is not bribery but bribery is corruption.

Auliq Ice

#56. What I don't like is what it sometimes takes to win. Backstabbing. Manipulation. Out-and-out bribery once in a while, and not always the monetary kind.

Ellen Hopkins

#57. Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

Barnabe Rich

#58. There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

Bob Schaffer

#59. The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.

Pankaj Mishra

#60. Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

James Surowiecki

#61. British would use every means from persuasion to bribery in Morocco and when those failed the wives of British diplomats knew what they had to do to further Britain's interests.

Margaret MacMillan

#62. A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

John Stuart Mill

#63. I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.
-W.A. Clark, ascribed

Bill Dedman

#64. Every man has his price.

Robert Walpole

#65. To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.

Karin Tidbeck

#66. When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.

Auliq Ice

#67. No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Walter Raleigh

#68. An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

Criss Jami

#69. What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"
"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.

Scott Lynch

#70. Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Philip Massinger

#71. Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#72. 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

#73. We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.

Kenneth Eade

#74. 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

#75. The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#76. Didn't we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs - - by whatever name or rationale - - were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?

Ray Bourhis

#77. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#78. Not every gift must you stretch your hands to take! Sometimes, just put your hands by your side and humbly and courageously say thank you!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#79. Mr. Keith, by means of some mysterious formula, soon procured two seats in the front row, the occupants of which smilingly took their places among the crowd at the back.

Norman Douglas

#80. Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

Henry Ward Beecher

#81. Every time there's elections, we hand out cash. Usually to both sides, but this time the government is going to win for sure. The opposition is in a total mess. So we just have to pay off the government, which is good for us.

Aravind Adiga