Bribe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
-- Edward Coke

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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

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James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007
-- Nuhu Ribadu

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A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.
-- Samuel Chadwick

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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
-- Samuel Richardson

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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

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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

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Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.
I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is political fiction.
A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.
There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
At a simple level, good is that which helps people-evil is that which hurts people. At a higher level, good is that which is in harmony with divine purpose-evil is that which is out of harmony with divine purpose.
As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.
One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.