Quotes About Bribes

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also be compensated. While small-scale black markets may function in secrecy, large-scale black markets usually require bribes to officials to look the other way.

the ultimate purpose of the treaties was not fairness and equity but control and containment that enabled white settlement to continue unrestricted and unabated, all legal and extralegal measures necessary to ensure this had to be taken. If bribes had to be offered, lies told, or conditions abrogated in order to meet changing circumstances or to overcome Indian obstinacy, so be it. If

Since the bribes didn't work, the CIA planned to kidnap the commander in chief of the armed forces

Long considered godless vagabonds, professional performers in France had officially been forbidden the sacraments until 1790. Many, in past centuries, had never bothered to secure the necessary dispensations—obtainable through confession to a sympathetic priest and a few discreet bribes—that would have allowed them to marry with the blessing of the Church, and so the immorality of actors had become notorious.

bribes often worked where procedure or threats wouldn't.

but I was thinking of the people who make a religion out of something completely different. Like money—actually, that's the nearest thing the government has to an ideology, and I'm not talking about bribes, Sam. Nowadays it's not just unfortunate if you have a low-paid job, have you noticed? It's actually irresponsible: you're not a good member of society, you're being very very naughty not to have a big house and a fancy car.

Beware of the urge to suffer. For many think that suffering is a way to pay God 'bribes to a corrupt God,' as Crowley put it, to gain His approval.

Many Constitutional Convention delegates also worried that presidents might be tempted to accept foreign bribes and conspire with enemy powers.

FIRST MORAL Good manners are not easy They need a little care, But when we least expect it Bring rewards both rich and rare. SECOND MORAL Brute force or bribes of diamonds Bend others to your will, But gentle words have greater power And gain more conquests still.

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.

In America, the talk now is all about white privilege, but regardless of your race, there's American privilege as well, or at least Western privilege. It means that when you're in Dakar or Minsk your embassy is open and staffed, and you don't need to hand out bribes in order to get

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

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

Bribes over two dollars are tax deductible

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

Vladimir Putin's Russia is typical of dictatorships old and new. It does not try to censor everything. The regime understands that the total control of communism failed because it suppressed too much. On a personal level, the men at the top in the Kremlin do not want to go back to a time when the bribes they received were worth little because the luxuries of capitalism were on the other side of an iron curtain.

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

Il m'arrivait souvent de capter des bribes de conversation d'inconnus dans les cafés. Je les notais le plus discrètement que possible. Au moins, ces paroles n'étaient pas perdues pour toujours. Elle remplissent cinq cahiers, avec des dates et des points de suspension.

Right. Bribes aren't deductible.

He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.