At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

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

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.

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

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.

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