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"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
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"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."
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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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"Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist."
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"When interacting with corporate government agents, always assume that they are corrupt until proven otherwise."
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"It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people."
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"It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them."
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"Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor's blessings become a Nigerian norm?"
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"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
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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."
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"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
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"I want a language that speaks the truth."
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"I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it."
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"If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have."
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"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."
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"So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense."
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"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be."
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"We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world."
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