Carroll Quigley Quotes

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

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.

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

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.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

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.

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.

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.

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

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.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

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.

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.