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

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

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

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.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.