Carroll Quigley Quotes

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• There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes…
• The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated…
• For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered…
• 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…
• The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to…
• The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by…
• The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.
• Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions
• By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West
• Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity…
• Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price…
• I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom
• The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and…
• 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…
• Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and…

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