Quotes from Robert Payne

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

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

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

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

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.

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.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

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.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.