Carroll Quigley

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by…

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Carroll Quigley

The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into…

— Carroll Quigley

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for…

— Carroll Quigley

This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the…

— Carroll Quigley

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the…

— Carroll Quigley

“We are violating every aspect of life by turning everything into a ripoff because we have adopted the view that insatiable individualistic…

— Carroll Quigley

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn…

— Carroll Quigley

The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put…

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Carroll Quigley

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level…

— Carroll Quigley

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that…

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Carroll Quigley

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries…

— Carroll Quigley

everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization…

— Carroll Quigley

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power…

— Carroll Quigley

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks…

— Carroll Quigley

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized…

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Carroll Quigley

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei…

— Carroll Quigley

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who…

— Carroll Quigley

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining…

— Carroll Quigley

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a…

— Carroll Quigley