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

The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

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

The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.

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.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.