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

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.

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 ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

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