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"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
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"We have taken decisive steps to curb corruption. We removed discretion in allocation of key resources and moved to transparent auctions of mines, spectrum and FM radio licenses. We have plugged leakages through DBT."
"Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar."
"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
"The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it's not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs."
"Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will."
"It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people."
"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations."
"The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) whistle-blower complaints, enforce hardly any police internal affairs allegations, and corrupt corporations with lobbyists can continue operating outside of the law."
"The Trust movie it has shown how one picture could be twisted and even how the cops are dirty!"
"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."
Explore more quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
"Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."
"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."
"He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."
"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature."
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