To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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 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
