Robert Payne Quotes - Page 2

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

  Robert Payne

  Government, Ends, Domination

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

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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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