Pierre Stephen Robert Payne: Quotes about men

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

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society, p. 279 (See also: Niccolò Machiavelli..)
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)

“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)