| 13 Famous Quotes by Carroll Quigley
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“...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.”
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“...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.”
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“Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.”
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“In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.”
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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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“In this Western point of view, evil and sin were negative qualities; they arose from the absence of good, not from the presence of evil.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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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.”
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“It never occurred to anyone in a responsible position that Germany and Russia might make common cause, even temporarily, against the West.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Carroll Quigley Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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