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.

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

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

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

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.

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.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.