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"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."
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"If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws."
"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."
"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
"The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party."
"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying."
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs."
"All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the amount of money they hog in illegally and the only way it comes out is by tilting their huge pot-bellied frames to one side and emitting poisonous gases that not only depreciate their beloved seats but also the nation as a whole and then they shout 'Global Warming.' Hallelujah!"
"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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"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
"He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within."
"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."
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