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.

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

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

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

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.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.