The small Hitlers are around us every day.

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

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

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

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.

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.

The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.