Robert Payne Quotes - Page 2

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

  Robert Payne

  Accomplishment, Corruption, Permit

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 187), 1975.

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• In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.

  Robert Payne

  Loyalty, Kings, Father

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

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