Robert Payne may refer to: (wikipedia)
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.
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.
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.
A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.
Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
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.
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
