Robert Payne Men Quotations

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.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

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.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

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.

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

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