Asebia: We never valued right and wrong But as they serve our cause. Zelota: Our business was to please the throng, and court their wind applause. Asebia For this we bribed the lawyer’s tongue and then destroyed the laws.
Bribery Quotes
A carrot on a stick.
Where many a Client Verdict miss’d for want of Greazing in the fist.
A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath.
And if thou freely wilt, in bribes thy coyne bestowe, both judge, and jurie will bee prest, all favor thee to showe: Yea Gods from heaven will hither come, all honor thee to doe.
He that buyeth magistracy will seek justice.
Death’s boatman takes no bribe.
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
It is always a temptation for a reach and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: “Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away.” And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we’ve proved it again […]
Tell God the truth, but give the judge money.
