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Carroll Quigley (/ˈkwɪɡli/; November 9, 1910 – January 3, 1977) was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is noted for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, for his academic publications, and for his research on the Round Table movement.

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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.

Basis, Convincing, Man, Men, Self, Today

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.

Civilization, Considerable, Historical, Part, Perspective, Western

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 in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.

Cooperative, Country, Dominate, Government, Influence, Levels

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 dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.

Acting, Aim, Country, Fashion, Hands, Whole

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.

Actions, Differences, Government, Self, Stable, Ultimately

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.

Addition, Bankers, Government, Influence, Steer, Way

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 level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.

Certain, Confidence, Cost, Giving, Level, Mean

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

Decision, Germany, Played, Political, Reduced, Role

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 turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.

Compassion, Cooperation, Future, Men, War

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 around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

America, Civilization, Control, Rothschild, Two, Western

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 the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

Benefit, Growth, Indirect, Nwo, Order

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

Civilization, Complicated, Firsts, Perished

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

Answers, Believe, Final, Finals, Truth, Ultimate

When the business interests. . . pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

1883, Business, Party, Political, Reform

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

Character, Individual, Intersect, Nexus

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 Communists act. 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. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

Believe, Exist, Money, Right, Round, Years

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.

Academic, Ideas, Parties, Party, Right, Two

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.

Believe, Littles, Man, Men, Patience, Universe

. . . a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

Greek, Organization, Power, Society, States, Thing

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

Method, Nothing, Perhaps, Realizing, Scientist, Today

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