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

Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

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

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.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

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.