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[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson

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

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. — Michael Parenti

When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility. — Auliq Ice

President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again. — Jay Leno

Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing? — Sunday Adelaja

We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission. — Sunday Adelaja

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes BY ALFIE KOHN — Daniel H. Pink

95% of penny stocks are junk. I show you how to find the other 5%, and do it all without bribes or vested interests. Just good quality companies. — Peter Leeds

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. — Joseph Conrad

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations — Gayle Forman

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

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel De Cervantes

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation. — Bryan Swanson

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

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

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. — Gore Vidal

Bribes and boy bands. That's all you need to be a babysitter. — Mindy Kaling

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. — John Le Carre

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. — Barbara Tuchman

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon

No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim. — Aeschylus

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch. — Timothy Noah

As worms are used to bait fish; bribes are used to ensnare fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down. — Larry Pressler

Bribes over two dollars are tax deductible — Melina Marchetta

Death takes no bribes. — Benjamin Franklin

This is how we grow: not up, but out, like trees
swelling to encompass all these stories, the promises and lies and bribes and habits. — Lauren Oliver

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. — James Alan Gardner

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules. — Wang Jianlin

Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation — Sunday Adelaja

In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line. — Mo Ibrahim