“...Under a twofold governing system, such as that of which
I have now completed the description—namely, an administration in which every
actor is, in different aspects, both the briber and the bribed; and a judicial
procedure, without either a law or a law court—it will readily be understood
that confidence in the Government is not likely to exist, that there is no
personal sense of duty or pride of honour, no mutual trust or co-operation
(except in the service of ill-doing), no disgrace in exposure, no credit in
virtue, above all no national spirit or patriotism.”
- Lord Curzon (‘Persia and
the Persian Question’, quoted by Shoghi Effendi in the ‘Introduction’ to ‘The
Dawn-Breakers’)
