The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.