Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

One only needs a big enough bribe to give in like a lamb.

Passion, prejudice, and error, are characteristics of human nature ….. Literary talents may be prostituted, and the powers of genius debased to subserve the purposes of ambition or avarice.

Every man has his price.

Everyone has their price. You just have to find out what it is.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

Weakness arouses evil. The American people know this.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.