Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 180
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.”
— Emil M. Cioran, book History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
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