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.
The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God’s word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
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.
Nietzsche’s accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.
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 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 welfare.
Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.
The small Hitlers are around us every day.
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.
The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.