Quotes by Carroll Quigley

Carroll Quigley

American historian and theorist

Lived from: 1910 - 1977

Category: History and sociology | Scientists

Born: 9 november 1910 Died: 3 january 1977

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  • In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
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  • In its final stages the civilization becomes a dualism of almost totalitarian imperial power and an amorphous mass culture of atomized individuals.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
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  • Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
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  • 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 the Communists.
    "American Opinion, Volume 12" (Robert Welch, Inc., 1969), p. 264. Also in: "Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask" (Western Islands,
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  • Men have social needs. They have a need for other people; they have a need to love and be loved.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
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  • Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
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  • Our society has so cluttered our lives with artifacts... and organizational structures that moment to moment relationships with nature are almost impossible.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • 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.
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  • The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • 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 that area, and especially to Spain.
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  • The link between a society, whether it be made up of communities or individuals, and a state is this: Power rests on the ability to satisfy human needs.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • 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 picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
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  • 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 training.
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  • The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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  • The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
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