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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.

— Pierre Stephen Robert Payne The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

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

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

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

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

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

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