In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.
Robert PayneA culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
Robert PayneThe second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.
Robert PayneUncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.
Robert Payne