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Carroll Quigley was an American historian renowned for his profound insights into modern world history. His book 'Tragedy and Hope' revealed how global financial elites have influenced the course of world history.

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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.”

Important Purpose Social Interest Effort Society Achieve Concerned Organization Institutions Experts Vested Interests Social Organization

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“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.”

States Political Century Organization Separation Nineteenth Century Separation Of Powers

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.”

Ifs Might Form Wish Economic Capitalism Organization Structure Profit Pursuit Defined Motivated

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.”

Social Civilization Organization Slavery Instruments Expansion Social Organization

Author:Carroll Quigley

“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.”

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Author:Carroll Quigley

About the Author

Born: November 9, 1910
Died: January 3, 1977
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 62

Books & Sources

The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysisRelated source material

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our TimeRelated source material

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