Quotes about Bribes

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.