Carroll Quigley Quotes

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Control

• 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 checks of the purchaser’s country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Must

• To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Influenced, Africa

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

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Depression, 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 of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

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  Topics in Knowledge, Power

  Tags in Public

• There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolution, American

• 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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  Topics in Attitude, Nature

  Tags in Human

• The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

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  Topics in Advice, History

  Tags in Often, Governments

• 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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  Topics in Failure, Influence

  Tags in Greater

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Idea

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Again, Affair

• 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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  Topics in Power

  Tags in New, New York

• 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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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Right, Communist

• 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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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Successful

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Influenced

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Communist

• 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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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Revolution

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winter, Russian

• Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Same

Carroll Quigley (20)

Birth:	9th November, 1910
Death:	3rd January, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Professor, Writer

About

Carroll Quigley was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an American historian, professor, writer 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 secret societies. He B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. He taught at Princeton University, and then at Harvard, and then at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 1941 to 1976. He served as a book reviewer for the Washington Star and was a contributor and editorial board member of Current History.

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