Found Quote by Robert Payne Download Open image “The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.” — Robert Payne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Found Good moral Moralist
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
“The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".” — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. — Richard J. Needham Copy Share Image
Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith and hope exist. — Arsenio V Manalo Jr Copy Share Image
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live,… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power.… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
