Pierre Stephen Robert Payne: Corruption

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne was British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer. Explore interesting quotes on corruption.
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“Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 187
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Five faces of Corruption, p. 45
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Corruptions Of the Physical Body, p. 6
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Five faces of Corruption, p. 31 (See also: Samuel P. Huntington..)
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

Introduction, p. viii
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli, p. 139
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Corruptions Of the Physical Body, p. 5
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Drunken Helmsman, p. 97
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Corruptions of Our Time, p. 248
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

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

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Corrupt Individual, p. 63
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Romantic Agony, p. 158
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Corruptions of Our Time, p. 249
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

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

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Nature of Human Corruption, p. 88
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)