Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries. Carroll Quigley More Quotes by Carroll Quigley More Quotes From Carroll Quigley Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Carroll Quigley party two people Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else. Carroll Quigley scientist realizing today To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. Carroll Quigley spain southern-italy influence The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. Carroll Quigley political intellectual religious It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence. Carroll Quigley historical civilization long On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. Carroll Quigley london new-york practice The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values. Carroll Quigley kind fundamentals ideas It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it. Carroll Quigley events tears easy No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. Carroll Quigley rome war years The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one. Carroll Quigley significant abstract civilization The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. Carroll Quigley self today men A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. Carroll Quigley states organization greek The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. Carroll Quigley expansion organization civilization After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods. Carroll Quigley different important years In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem. Carroll Quigley violence sake facts In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. Carroll Quigley government pressure way Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change. Carroll Quigley perspective historical civilization This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living. Carroll Quigley groups able simple It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders. Carroll Quigley empires leaving might Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete. Carroll Quigley separation political organization
