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

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.

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.

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

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.