A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

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

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

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.

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

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.

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.