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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quotes

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His worst crime was that he gave no hope to the young  (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quotes) 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 Quotes) For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government  (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quotes) The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population  (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights  (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) A nation’s wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare  (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quotes) It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable  (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quotes) 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 Quotes)