18 Bribery Quotes for You to Enjoy

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. Gore Vidal

Democracy Our Scale Highest Form Bribery

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

Truth Truth Is Exhausted Few Nothing Final Resort Telling Telling The Truth Threat Only Idea Alternative Been Years Up Very Options Deception Bribery Whole Last Last Few Years

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

Suffering Corruption Free Poison Think Other Other Countries Our Worse Say India Countries Condition Curses Biggest Which Much Really Bribery

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

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

Overcome King Shameful Force Arms Opinion Than In My Opinion Less Bribery

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

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

Government Science Corruption Made Nation State City Seized Robbery County Debt Public Bribery Loaded Speculation

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

It was the BJP that betrayed me when one of its members made the Rs 150-crore bribery allegation against me without evidence. H. D. Kumaraswamy

Me Made Evidence Members Allegation Betrayed Without Against Bribery

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery. Hisham Matar

Speak Dictatorship Father Threats Sons Grammar Bribery

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources. James Surowiecki

Me Business People World Resources Everything Criteria Able Someone Allocation He Wrong Make Because Off Encourages Efficient Get Wants Which Decisions Really Means Paying Bribery Business World Company Including Based Why

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

Business Corruption Seen Unpleasant Some Allowed Part Attention Countries Until Doing Were Overseas Western Western Countries Expense Little Little Attention Paid Bribe Bribery Businesses European European Countries Even Necessary

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery. Jimmy Breslin

New Most Trump Donald Reporters Donald Trump Disgraceful Form Bribery

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

Win Important Marketplace Rather Scheme Highest Highest Levels Reached Fairly Contracts Than Product Bribery Fully Company Compete Levels

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

Struggle Rulers Out Threw Colonial Mainly Were Deceit Dutch After Inheritance Bribery Who Keen Coercion Four-Year Preserve