Bribe Quotes - Page 6

• Sadly however, I discovered in one particular case that a colleague went and paid the bribe on my behalf, just to get our mission fulfilled. That was painful, and it strained our friendship.

  Wole Soyinka

  Painful

  Source: secure.saharareporters.com

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• There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property - it's somewhere between $30 million and $50 million. It would be so easy for a developer to slap on an extra $6 million to a Trump licensing deal and have that be a backdoor bribe. Who are we to say what that is worth? It's so ephemeral. And this is the appeal of selling something as ephemeral as a brand name, is that it can be inflated beyond all reason.

  Naomi Klein

  Reason, Easy, Selling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Women are less corruptible. There's plenty of research to show that they are less inclined to take bribes and they are more trustworthy. And so it's all the more important to have them in large percentages.

  Swanee Hunt

  Important, Trustworthy, Plenty

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Utterance, Clients, Oppression

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• 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.

  Ed McBain

  Character, Roots, Balance

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• Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

  Matthew Parris

  Politics, Politician, Good Politicians

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• In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Names

  June Jordan (2003). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.277, Basic Books

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• Trade it may help, society extend,
  But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
  It raises armies in a nation's aid,
  But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Army, Land

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

  Thomas More

  Wise, Men, Office

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, School, Eye

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• My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

  Edward Dyer

  Perfect, Deceit, Ease

  1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

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• I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Different, Matter, Puppy

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol. Act 1, Scene 1, 1836.

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• Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

  Alan Greenspan

  Regulation, Moral, Protection

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.111, Penguin

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• 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

  Silence, Trying, Looks

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• I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.

  Richard Rossi

  Giving, Want

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Bob Torricelli, Democrat member of the Senate, was basically about to be thrown out of office on corruption charges, and he went to the floor of the Senate to deny everything. And we juxtaposed his denials with an attorney from someone in an action against Torricelli who was listing all of the gifts and all the bribes that Torricelli had been given and offered in exchange for policy considerations on the Senate floor. So he's on the Senate floor denying it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Office, Denial, Bob

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

  Anthony Standen

  Truth, Reputation, Devotion

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• Many companies believe incentives, financial incentives, are the answer to every problem or issue. But people are motivated by much more than money. In particular, people like to feel good about themselves and maintain their self-esteem. If companies spent more time working on people's feelings of self-worth, they wouldn't have to try, often unsuccessfully, to bribe people to do work.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Believe, People, Feel Good

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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