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 prepa…

- Robert Payne

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 wel…

- Robert Payne

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 ga…

- Robert Payne

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

- Robert Payne

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 al…

- Robert Payne

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-be…

- Robert Payne

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

- Robert Payne

The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense weal…

- Robert Payne

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was l…

- Robert Payne