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

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

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..

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….

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

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….

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