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Powerful Ancient Quotes That Reflect The Nigerian Society by 12Monkeys: 7:05pm On Aug 17, 2018
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop (620-560 BC)

"Just because you (do not take an interest in politics)* doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." - Pericles (495-429 BC) (*) original Greek definition of a village idiot.

"The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread in the law courts and to the army, and finally, when even the sword became enslaved by the power of gold, the republic was subjected to the rule of emperors." - Plutarch

This one below is for the Buhari worshipers who defend his abuse of power and the laws of the land..

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." - Edmund Burke (1729-97)

Lagos State take note...

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry

This is why and how some people voted Buhari...

"Ignorant, restless desperadoes, without conscience or principles, have led a deluded multitude to follow their standard, under pretense of grievances which have no existence but in their own imaginations." - Abigail Adams

The Fulani Emirates were built on these same words

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat

This why some of us do not like your Buhari...

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A warning to those swallowing every Lai Mohammed/APC lies...

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

Finally, this one is for the resident zombies...

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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Re: Powerful Ancient Quotes That Reflect The Nigerian Society by 12Monkeys: 7:08pm On Aug 17, 2018
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
Re: Powerful Ancient Quotes That Reflect The Nigerian Society by OsuEbonyi: 2:37am On Aug 19, 2018
Osu monkey...
Go and hang yourself
Re: Powerful Ancient Quotes That Reflect The Nigerian Society by 12Monkeys: 8:30am On Aug 19, 2018
OsuEbonyi:
Osu monkey...
Go and hang yourself

Is that all?

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