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

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

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

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

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.

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.

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.