Pierre Stephen Robert Payne: Quotes about history

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne was British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer. Explore interesting quotes on history.
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“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.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 180
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

History

“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)

History

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

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Corruptions of Society, p. 9 (See also: The American Dream..)
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

People , Hope , Art , History