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.

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.

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

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

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.