The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

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.

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

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.