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

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.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

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.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

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.