Corruption (n.) is the warlike passions transmuted into countless private passions. as such, it is precisely in times of corruption and 'exhaustion (i.e. times when tragedy runs through houses and streets) that great love and great hatred are born and that the flame of knowledge flares up into the sky.
Corruption (n.) is a quality of men who possess a refined cruelty - witty and slanderous. Such men know types of murder that require neither daggers nor assault.
Corruption (n.) is merely a nasty word for the autumn of a people... times of corruption gives birth to the individual who carries the seeds of the future and is the author of the spiritual colonization and origin of new states and communities.
Corruption (n.) is only an abusive term for the harvest time of a people.
Corruption (n.) is when an individual or species loses their instincts, when they choose, when they prefer, what is injurious to them.
Corruption (n.) flourishes innocently, like a fungus, in every institution not open to the biting air of public criticism.
Corruption (n.) is merely a nasty word for the autumn of a people — the season when the apples, the individuals, fall from the tree carrying the seeds of the future.