"Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps."

-- Obafemi Awolowo

#Sacrifice Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

Source : First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.”
“A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.”
“The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”

Source : Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage
“We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know...The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.”
“Iâ€™m a happy fellow. I feel very privileged, lucky, that I have had a wonderful life. And that I have been always allowed to do what I love,”
“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”

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