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.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

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

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 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.

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

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