[Posted
August 19, 2009]PRABHUPADA: Simply spoiling their time and public money. That's all. Simply spoiling. But public have no eyes to see them. They're also rascal. Therefore my Guru Maharaja used to say that the whole society's now combination of cheaters and cheated. That's all. The cheated want cheaters, and cheaters take the opportunity of the cheated. And that is the combination of the present day society. Somebody, they want to be cheated. And there are some cheaters. So the whole society is combination of cheater and cheated.
PROFESSOR WOLFE: That is why nobody wants to change anything.
PRABHUPADA: Yes. Yes.
PROFESSOR WOLFE: No real reform.
PRABHUPADA: No.
PROFESSOR WOLFE: Because they all want to go on cheating.
PRABHUPADA: Yes. You see? That is the qualification of conditioned soul: To become a cheater, and to become cheated. This is the condition. To become a cheater is one of the conditions of material life. The four defects: He must commit mistake, he must be illusioned, and he must cheat, and his senses are imperfect. These are the four qualifications of the materialistic person.