Robert Payne Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Robert Payne

  Taken, Men, Long

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

  Robert Payne

  Dictatorship

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• 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.

  Robert Payne

  Kings, Pope, Glory

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 180), 1975.

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