I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the econo...my of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods through pretending that they sell, or power through making believe you are powerful, or through a packed jury or caucus, bribery and "repeating" votes, or wealth by fraud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by br...ibery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's ...doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titl...es.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The... end of the world is evidently approaching." Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »