Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911 – 1983)
Novelist, historian, poet, and biographer.
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.
Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.
A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
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.
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.
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.