They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
Quotes about bribes (15 Quotes)
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
We drew the conclusion that this was the way to do business in Iraq, ... No one linked that to bribes.
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
The levels of corruption in Bangladesh and Chad are extremely serious and have devastating consequences for ordinary people, who have to pay bribes simply to get things which they're entitled to.
Historically, political contributions have not been treated as bribes. If political contributions are bribes, then you ask for help from that same politician, then you could run a paddy wagon up K Street and clear out the place, because that's the way business is done in this town, and that doesn't make a bribe.
There were bribes there were kickbacks there was lax oversight from the Secretariat and some member states turned a blind eye toward this corruption.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
There is petty corruption at administrative level ... People pay bribes in order to accelerate their business.
The Supreme Court made an important pronouncement against political corruption. It provided a useful tool, the disgorgement remedy, for use in civil litigation as a deterrent to the payment of bribes to secure government business.
Parents and children alike need to understand that a child cannot be trained to stop wetting the bed. Parents often offer bribes or rewards in an attempt to get kids to not wet the bed and become frustrated when they fail.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this:
You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella
For taking bribes here of the Sardians,
Wherein my letters, praying on his side,
Because I knew the man, were slighted off.
The new corruption drive is all well and fine but we have to deal with the supply side. Where the bank can really deliver is by naming and shaming big companies that pay bribes.