This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“We are violating every aspect of life by turning everything into a ripoff because we have adopted the view that insatiable individualistic greed must… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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
