The small Hitlers are around us every day.

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

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.

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.

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.

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