[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
Death takes no bribes.
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D. C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.
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.
Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter.
