„If one finger brings oil it soils the others.“

— Chinua Achebe
„If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.“
— Chinua Achebe
„Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!“
— Golda Meir