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David Hume

"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."

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"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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"THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERFUL MEN USE IT TO TREAT THEMSELVES TO A THRILL! THEY SAY THEY LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT. THEY SAY THINGS TO MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR GOOD - THEY MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR MORAL...THE COUNTRY WANTS A SAVIOUR. THE COUNTRY IS A SUCKER FOR POWERFUL MEN WHO LOOK GOOD. WE THINK THEY'RE MORALISTS AND THEN THEY JUST USE US."

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Amber Hurdle

"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities."

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"Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed."

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"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."

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"Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people"."

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"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."

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"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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