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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe. -- Claud Cockburn
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. -- Edward Coke
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe. -- Imran Khan
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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
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
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
James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007 -- Nuhu Ribadu
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. -- Thornton Wilder
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. -- Alexander Pope
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. -- Mark Twain
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. -- John le Carre
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
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
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
Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted. -- David Letterman
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? -- Marsilio Ficino
Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. -- Walter Lippmann
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
If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in . He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper. -- Reverend Ike
Washington continues to encourage ever more ill-considered lending in a misguided attempt to stave off needed market corrections. The currently proposed combination of a nationwide infrastructure spending orgy plus tax-cut bribes does nothing to remedy that. -- Michelle Malkin
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 double agents are recruited and used. -- Sun Tzu
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
What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus? -- William Shakespeare
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia [sic] and bribe the police. -- L. Ron Hubbard
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe. -- Al Lewis
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. -- Thornton Wilder
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe. -- Gautam Adani
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. -- Thomas Gray
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play. -- John Gokongwei
Society has no bribe for me... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither bribe nor loose thy right. -- George Herbert
Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself. -- Napoleon Hill
Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? How much -- Groucho Marx
If only one man is left standing, a bribe cannot bite. -- Mary Lawrence
The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. -- Henry David Thoreau
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery. -- Anne Holm
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. -- John Dryden
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! -- Samuel Johnson
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. -- Samuel Richardson
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. -- Joyce Carol Oates
God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will. -- Stephen King
A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts. -- Samuel Chadwick
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them. -- Matthew Parris
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. -- Abraham Lincoln
I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want. -- Richard Rossi
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast. -- Criss Jami
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. -- Ouida
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. -- Gore Vidal
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
"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
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
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all. -- Will Durant
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
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
If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be a bribe. There's going to be something. -- David Brooks
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
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
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
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
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
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

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