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.

In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

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

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 second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.