A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

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

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

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

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

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.