Line #56 Quotes/EveryManHasHisPrice


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3	[[folder:Comic Books]]
4	->''"A Kenyan man once said to me, 'you can get used to everything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks a time."''
5	-->--'''Spider Jerusalem''', ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''
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7
8	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
9	->''"I don't know what's more sad, that every man has his price, or that it's always so low."''
10	-->-- '''Hobbes''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
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12
13	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
14	->'''Tulio''': I wouldn't set foot in that jungle for a million pesetas!\
15	'''Miguel''': How about... a ''hundred'' million?\
16	'''Tulio''': ...What?\
17	'''Miguel''': I just thought that, since, after all, El Dorado ''is'' the {{city of gold}}...\
18	'''Tulio''': What's your point?\
19	'''Miguel''': You know, dust, nuggets, bricks... A temple of gold where you can ''pluck'' gold from the very ''walls'', but you don't want to go, so let's get back in the boat and row back to Spain! After all, it worked ''[[SarcasmMode so]]'' well last time...\
20	'''Tulio''': Wait!... Wait a minute, new plan. We ''find'' the city of gold... We ''take'' the gold... And ''then'' we go back to Spain.\
21	'''Miguel''': And buy Spain! ''That's'' the spirit!
22	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado''
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24
25	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
26	->''"Follow the money."''
27	-->--'''Deepthroat''', ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen''
28
29	->'''Wade''': So let me get this straight, [[Film/JamesBond Jimmy]]: You shot 'im in the leg. You stole his car. You ''took his girl''. And '''now''' you want Valentin Zukovsky to set you up with Janus? What are you gonna do? Appeal to his heart?\
30	'''Bond''': No, his wallet.\
31	'''Wade''': [approvingly] That'll work.
32	-->-- ''Film/GoldenEye''
33
34	->''"I just wanted to see if you had your price. Most of us do."''
35	-->--'''Sir Guy Grand''', ''Film/TheMagicChristian''
36
37	->'''Yuri''': How many Kalashnikovs do you have?\
38	'''General Dmitri''': [Looking in the arsenal records] Forty thousand\
39	'''Yuri Orlov''': Is that a four? Doesn't look like a four to me, it looks more like a one.\
40	'''General Dmitri''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint No, it's a four]].\
41	'''Yuri Orlov''': It's whatever we say it is because no one else will never know the difference. Ten thousand Kalashnikovs for an entire battalion... your stocks are dangerously depleted, Dimitri, you should order more from the factory.\
42	'''General Dmitri''': Someone will work it out. What happens then?\
43	'''Yuri Orlov:''' Then we'll cut them in.
44	-->-- ''Film/LordOfWar'''
45
46	->'''Lord Cutler Beckett''': No doubt you've discovered that loyalty is no longer the currency of the realm, as your father believes.\
47	'''Elizabeth Swann''': Then what is?\
48	'''Lord Cutler Beckett''': I'm afraid currency is the currency of the realm.
49	-->-- ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'''
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52
53	[[folder:Literature]]
54	->''"You forgot the cardinal rule of employing mercenaries. They follow the person with the money."''
55	-->-- '''Tattletale''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''
56	[[/folder]]
57
58	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
59	->'''Servalan:''' You are infinitely corruptible. You'd sell out anybody, wouldn't you?
60	->'''[[AntiHero Avon]]:''' I don't know; I never really had an offer I felt was worthy of me.
61	-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E1Aftermath Aftermath]]"
62
63	->'''Luke Cage:''' I can't be bought.\
64	'''Rosalie Carbone:''' You can't answer that truthfully yet, [[TermsOfEndangerment sweetheart]]. You don't know your price yet.
65	-->-- ''Series/LukeCage2016''
66
67	->'''Bodie:''' Would you [[DestinationDefenestration push a girl out of a window]] for two million?
68	->'''Doyle:''' ''(beat)'' Is that a definite offer?
69	-->-- ''Series/TheProfessionals'', "Everest Was Also Conquered"
70
71	->''"It's not hard to buy someone who's never had anything."''
72	-->-- '''Fjor Jutul''', ''Series/Ragnarok2020''
73
74	->'''[[GreedyJew Herod]]''': I am told Roman gentlemen do not solicit bribes, one must offer the bribe as a gift. Is that so?\
75	'''Marc Anthony:''' Yes, yes that is so. We are the most [[HypocrisyNod dreadful hypocrites]] I'm afraid.\
76	'''Herod:''' I offer you a gift then. Help me take the throne of Judea, make my enemies your enemies, and I offer you a substantial gift.\
77	'''Posca:''' How... substantial would this gift be?\
78	'''Herod:''' How substantial does it need to be?\
79	'''Posca:''' Twenty thousand pounds of gold.\
80	'''Herod:''' Done.\
81	'''Marc Anthony:''' ''(beat)'' I say we should have asked for more.
82	-->-- ''Series/{{Rome}}''
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84
85	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
86	->''"Money buys people. People think otherwise, to them it's just an exchange for services or a little palm-greasing to keep one's mouth shut, but you know better. With a few words and the right amount, a person is as much a product as a toaster is."''
87	-->-- ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'', describing the "Minions" [[SkillScoresAndPerks Focus Ability]][[note]][[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not]] [[Franchise/DespicableMe THOSE Minions]].[[/note]]
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89	->''"His loyalty couldn't be bought at any price; but it could be rented remarkably cheaply."''
90	-->-- '''Inquisitor Allendyne''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', after the execution of Rogue Trader Parnis Vermode for trafficking in interdicted Xenos artifacts
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93	[[folder:Video Games]]
94	->'''Kano:''' So why'd you knock back my offer?\
95	'''Jacqui:''' I'm not a sellout, ''asshole!''\
96	'''Kano:''' We just haven't found the right price.
97	-->-- ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''
98
99	->''"Everyone you know... everything you do... can be bought and sold. The price of loyalty is always changing."''
100	-->-- '''Maximilien''', ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht9YdKxL0yE Storm Rising Trailer]]
101
102	->''"You see how it works? You grease the hinges, the door opens."''
103	-->-- '''Bouncer''', ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002''
104
105	->'''Maximillian's Bouncer:''' Hold it right there! Nobody gets through these doors!\
106	'''Ratchet:''' Well I guess we'll have to take our payola elsewhere!\
107	'''Maximillian's Bouncer:''' Ahem. I mean... Nobody gets through these doors unless they give up that payola. Step right through.
108	-->-- ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingMobile''
109
110	->'''Alucard:''' I need your help.\
111	'''Master Librarian:''' Oh, but young master, I could never betray the good Count...\
112	'''Alucard:''' You won't go unrewarded...\
113	'''Master Librarian:''' Really? In that case, just tell me what you need!
114	-->-- ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''
115
116	->''"[[FictionalCurrency Macca]] opens all doors. I'd be willing to do [[BackFromTheDead this]] for you for a little compensation. You can also pay me in [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS Play Coins]], if you'd like."''
117	-->-- '''[[GameOverMan Charon]]''', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV''
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119
120	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
121
122	->'''Nicole:''' My mom was like "oh it's hush money". I'm like whatever, the media wouldn't pay us nearly this much.\
123	'''Jecka:''' Who needs morals when you have designer?
124	-->-- ''VisualNovel/ClassOf09''
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126	[[/folder]]
127	[[folder:Webcomics]]
128	->''"Why do humans keep thinking that minimum wage buys undying loyalty?"''
129	-->-- '''Sam''', ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''
130
131	->'''Henri Mer''': We're the good guys.\
132	'''Florence''': Enough was offered for some of your people to become the bad guys.\
133	'''Henri Mer''': That is a very rare occurrence.\
134	'''Florence''': No, it isn't. Do you want me to list from history examples of individuals who sold out for money?
135	-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fc02556.htm]]
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137	->uu: I PAID HIM OFF.\
138	uu: WITH CANDY.\
139	uu: EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE.\
140	uu: WHEN IT COMES TO SWEETS.\
141	uu: [=ALTHOuGH.=]\
142	uu: HE WAS PROBABLY WILLING TO DO IT. EVEN [=WITHOuT=] THE BRIBE.
143	-->--'''Caliborn''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
144
145	->''Every client is one missed payment away from becoming a target and every target is one bribe away from becoming a client.''
146	-->--'''Maxim 49''', ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
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148
149	[[folder:Web Videos]]
150	->'''Woman:''' I'll cover you in gold.\
151	'''Théo:''' I am very tall.\
152	'''Grunlek:''' No no, I'm smaller, so I'd have less.\
153	'''B.O.B.:''' And I'm scrawny, I'd be getting screwed over.\
154	'''Théo:''' I'll raise my hands.\
155	'''Balthazar:''' Or my staff. (''to Grunlek'') I'm sure you could use your grappling hook. You say we're incorruptible, it just means we're more expensive.
156	-->-- ''WebVideo/{{Aventures}}''
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158
159	[[folder:Western Animation]]
160	->''"Everyone has his price. What if I gave ''you'' these priceless diamonds?"''
161	-->-- '''Dr. Robotnik''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''
162
163	->''"Pay a man enough, and he'll walk barefoot into Hell."''
164	-->-- '''[[Fiction500 David Xanatos]]''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
165
166	->'''Sherman:''' How could you vote for Burns's movie?\
167	'''Krusty:''' Let's just say, it ''moved'' me... ''[leaps up]'' to a '''BIGGER HOUSE!''' ''[shrinks back]'' [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud Oops]], I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet, oh-ho dear...
168	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star Is Burns]]"
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170
171	[[folder:Wrestling]]
172	->''"Everybody's got a price\
173	Everybody's gonna pay\
174	'Cause the Million Dollar Man\
175	''Always'' gets his way\
176	Some may cost a little\
177	Some may cost a lot\
178	But I'm the Million Dollar Man\
179	And you ''will'' be bought!\
180	[[EvilLaugh Hahahahahahaha!]]"''
181	-->-- '''[[Wrestling/TedDiBiase The Million Dollar Man's]]''' entrance music, [[ProfessionalWrestling WWF]]
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183
184	[[folder:Other]]
185	->''"Isn't it funny how you magically get your memory back after sniffing a bunch of cash stuffed into a Big Bird suitcase? The scent of cash really is truth perfume (or lie perfume, depending on the situation)."''
186	-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2012/11/13/elmo-hook/ Michael K.]]''', "Elmo Accuser Gets a Visit From the Sesame Street Mafia"
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188
189	[[folder:Real Life]]
190	->''"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."''
191	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington''', ''Moral Maxims''
192
193	->''"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he has been bought several times over."''
194	-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal'''
195
196	->''"Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume."''
197	-->--'''Erich Fromm'''
198
199	->''"Germany is one big nation of nothing but cheap, corrupt, court-house politics, ruled by a single party whose leaders are mostly fanatical ascetics, but whose several million underlings are as buyable as postcards. For a half-pound of coffee I have rewritten whole German law books in my favour."''
200	-->-- '''Howard K. Smith''', ''Last Train from Berlin''
201
202	->''"The surprising thing is not that every man has his price, but how low it usually is."''
203	-->-- UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte''' (attributed)
204	[[/folder]]

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