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Robert Payne
"Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline."
Robert Payne
Civilization
Decline
Fragmentation
"The small Hitlers are around us every day."
Robert Payne
Relationship
"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."
Robert Payne
Liars
Lying
Believe
"Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power."
Robert Payne
Effectiveness
Naked
Corruption
"The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness."
Robert Payne
Men
"Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane."
Robert Payne
Country
Blessing
Men
"It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable."
Robert Payne
Position Of Power
Would Be
Garbage
"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."
Robert Payne
United States
Population
Wealth
"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."
Robert Payne
Men
Games
People
"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."
Robert Payne
Serious
Matter
Riches
"Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling."
Robert Payne
Firsts
Crumbling
Kingdoms
"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."
Robert Payne
Victory
Gains
Helping
"The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever."
Robert Payne
Book
Men
Yesterday
"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."
Robert Payne
Age
Faces
Doe
"The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions."
Robert Payne
Military
Oligarchy
Wealth
"A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress."
Robert Payne
Dictatorship
"A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress."
Robert Payne
Dictatorship
"Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt."
Robert Payne
Men
Belief
Christianity
"Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside."
Robert Payne
Accomplishment
Corruption
Permit
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