Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.