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“A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.”

Quote by Carroll Quigley

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

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The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

This book serves as an introductory guide to the study of historical analysis, exploring the progression and evolution of civilizations across various time periods and regions. more

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Carroll Quigley

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. more

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“The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.”

Persons Individual Social Groups Behavior Concerned Unpredictable Being Free Social Science

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

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

“A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.”

Groups Members Outsiders

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“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.”

Firsts Civilization Complicated Passages Passage Of Time

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

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

“When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.”

Actors Process Deals Approach Irrational

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

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

“The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.”

Political Social Religious Levels Development Intellectual Social Development Holding Back

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

“It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence.”

Long Process Existence Clear Civilization Historical Historical Change

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

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

“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.”

Whole Might Theory Universal Leaving Empires Globes Barbarians Invaders

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

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

“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.”

Humans Able Wealth Simple Study Groups Influence Huge Amount Activity Concerned Labor Direct Enormous Income Command Civilized Peasants Priesthood Surplus Periodicity

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“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