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"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."
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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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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
"If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city."
"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."
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