Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quote

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.


Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 180 - The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)


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.

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.

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.

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.