A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future..

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane..

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 al….

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them..

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

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists..

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….

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their de….

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline..

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

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….

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….

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….