Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

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.

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.

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

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

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.