James Surowiecki

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.

American Journalist

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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.

American Writer

Michael Musto

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Zephyr Teachout

Politicians are expected to spend half their time talking to funders and to keep them happy. Given this context, it's not hard to see how a bribery charge can feel like a technical argument instead of a moral one.

American Lawyer

Loretta Lynch

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.

American Public Servant

Sol Campbell

Fifa has lost the trust of the people. We cannot allow the architects and controllers of world football to get away with dragging the beautiful game through the grime of corruption and bribery.

English Businessman

John Jay Hooker

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

American Businessman

Sallust

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

Roman Historian

Hisham Matar

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

Gore Vidal

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

American Novelist

Bribery implies unethical behavior and is seen negatively in most cultures.

Negative Connotation

Bribery is illegal and can lead to legal consequences, such as fines or jail time.

Legal Implications

Bribery can involve gifts or favors aside from money to improperly influence someone.

Not Always Money

 bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. That still leaves a lot of room for interpretation, not to mention politics, and many impeachment trials have split along partisan lines. But the process is generally understood to be reserved for serious abuses of power.

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 had recently been discovered. Sensing an opportunity, Marsh paid the mine operators to send him the most interesting new finds. Outraged, Cope accused Marsh of bribery. That same year, Cope showed Marsh his reconstruction of a new marine reptile

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 It failed partly because the courts are too passive, partly because the legislatures are corrupted, by which I don't mean that there's bribery operating to stop real change, but more the economy of influence that governs how Congress functions

Laws that choke...

 they became I would say the strongest anti-corruption agency of the world most of the large companies are now totally convinced that they have to put in place very strong policies against bribery and so on and this is possible because civil

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 Now, why did the World Bank not let me do this work? I found out afterwards, after I left, under a big fight, the World Bank. The reason was that the members of the World Bank thought that foreign bribery was okay,

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 So she would fix them a sandwich. Today they would call that bribery. But she was just that kind of person. She liked to do things for you. She liked to give. So she would do that, and maybe that helped us out,

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 And what he meant by institutions were really just formal rules like a constitution, and informal constraints, like bribery. These institutions are really the grease that allow our economic wheels to function,

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 your boat guys get quite creative they do toasted kind of sandwiches called bribery keys just like bribe breads and you can get rid creative with the kind of fillings cheese tomato onion whatever you like

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 using bribery, threats, and lies to turn tribes against each other. Only in the closing days of this great war did the Celts unite against their common enemy under the leadership of king Vercingetorix,

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 foreign interests, bribery, drugs, ethnic conflicts, bad health, shame, fear and cumulative traumatic experiences. Local and foreign military are supposed to build peace together with the donors