In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
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.
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.