Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

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.

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.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

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.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

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