“We are violating every aspect of life by turning everything into a ripoff because we have adopted the view that insatiable individualistic greed must run the world. We are living in a very dangerous age in which insatiably greedy men… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience...… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. 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… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share
“We are violating every aspect of life by turning everything into a ripoff because we have adopted the view that insatiable individualistic greed must run the world. We are living in a very dangerous age in which insatiably greedy men are prepared to sacrifice anybody’s health and tranquility to satisfy their own insatiable greed for money and power. I am… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
