Bribery Quotes - Page 2

• Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

  Alexander Pope

  Hurt, Lawyer, Scribes

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.111

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• Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

  Penn Jillette

  Punishment, Rewards, Morality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Mean, People, Decision

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• 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

  Country, Nineteen, Attention

  "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.

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• 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

  Hands, Touching, Voters

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• Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

  Merchant of Yonkers (1939) act 1

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• Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Yield, Gold

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.56, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• La crisis financiera mundial es una gran oportunidad para mostrar y propagar el análisis institucional tanto causal como moral. La crisis muestra fallos importantes en la forma en que se regula el sistema financiero estadounidense y, lo que es más importante, en nuestro sistema político, que es esencialmente un bazar de sobornos legalizados en el que las instituciones financieras pueden comprarse a sí mismas las regulaciones gubernamentales que desean, junto con los reguladores que habitualmente reciben puestos lucrativos en la industria cuya supervisión había sido anteriormente su responsabilidad, la llamada práctica de la puerta giratoria.

  Thomas Pogge

  Empleo, responsabilidad, oportunidad

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Space, Honor

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.694

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• La República Americana perdurará hasta el día en que el Congreso descubra que puede sobornar al público con el dinero del público.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Gobierno, Descubrimiento, América

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• The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

  George Brandis

  Criminals, Crime, Code

  Fuente: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• Nuestras flexibles tribus reprimen sus gargantas patriotas, Y no hacen más preguntas que el precio de los votos.

  Samuel Johnson

  Tribes, Vote, Patriot

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”

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• Las peticiones, no endulzadas con oro, no son sino desagradables y a menudo rechazadas; o, si se reciben, se guardan en el bolsillo, no se leen.

  Philip Massinger

  Gold, Petitions, Ifs

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• Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Has Beens, Manhood

  Henry Ward Beecher William Drysdale (1887). "Proverbios del Púlpito de Plymouth"

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• The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

  Douglas Adams

  Animal, Borders, Benefits

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

  George Sanders

  Flower, Men, Winning

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• Un gobierno con toda esta masa de favores para dar o retener, por muy libre que sea de nombre, ejerce un poder de soborno apenas superado por una autocracia declarada, lo que le hace dueño de las elecciones en casi cualquier circunstancia, salvo en las de rara y extraordinaria excitación pública.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Names, Giving

  John Stuart Mill (1964). “Collected works of John Stuart Mill”

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• 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

  Mentir, Creer, Gente

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• Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

  Penn Jillette

  Punishment, Needs, Rewards

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Si la creencia religiosa es realmente tan necesaria para la humanidad, como se nos asegura continuamente que lo es, hay una gran razón para lamentar que los fundamentos intelectuales de la misma deban ser respaldados por el soborno moral o el soborno del entendimiento.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Understanding, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism”, p.71

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• As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

  Larry Hagman

  Cancer, Receiving, Dallas

  "Larry Hagman Returns to His Old 'Dallas' Stomping Grounds" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

  Mike Mason

  Doctors, Drug, Coercion

  Mike Mason (1985). "El misterio del matrimonio: Meditaciones sobre el milagro", Multnomah

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• When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

  James Surowiecki

  College, Thinking, Mind

  "Rent-Seekers". www.newyorker.com. August 13, 2007.

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• You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery, would disqualify him - except that child-killing is more serious than those.

  John Piper

  Niños, Creer, Pensar

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.280, Multnomah

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• That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Two, Serious

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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