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 al….

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever..

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 wel….

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it..

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-be….

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

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption ar….

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress..

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

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 prepa….

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 weal….

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was l….

The small Hitlers are around us every day..

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms ga….

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline..

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordin….

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..

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..

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

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power..

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