33 Quotes by Robert Payne

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

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.

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.

Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

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 United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

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

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