Robert Payne Quotes

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 United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

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

Where there had been hope, there was now hopelessness. Where there had been courage, there was now cynicism. Where there had been life, there was a living death. During Nixon's reign, much of life was transformed into a nightmare.

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 second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

His worst crime was that he gave no hope to the young.

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

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

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.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

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

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.

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.