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"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
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"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."
"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."
"Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty."
"The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities."
"Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed."
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given."
"Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people"."
"And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests."
"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying."
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"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."
"If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth."
"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
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