Carroll Quigley
Carroll Quigley
Carroll Quigleywas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 November 1910
CountryUnited States of America
government way pressure
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.
government self differences
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...
believe nwo world-government
The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.
country government banking
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.
motivational government history
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.
control countries country money recent single subject supply
The supply of money in a single country was subject to no centralized, responsible control in most countries over recent centuries.
ability decisions influence opinion
More important than the Milner Group's ability to influence opinion in the Dominions was its ability to influence decisions in London.
bankers business faster increased loans money result volume
The bankers made loans to business so that the volume of money increased faster than the increase in goods. The result was inflation.
against anyone common germany might occurred position russia
It never occurred to anyone in a responsible position that Germany and Russia might make common cause, even temporarily, against the West.
civilization firsts complicated
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.
leaving might empires
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.
outsiders groups members
A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.
organization political separation
Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.
religious political intellectual
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.