Carroll Quigley Quotes
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.
Quigley, Carroll. Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. Macmillan, 1966, p. 42.
Most conservatives of today would be surprised that this fundamental notion evolved from the liberals when conservatives were advocating imperial monarchies and powerful states in control of all their resources.
Carroll Quigley was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is remembered for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, and for his writing about global conspiracies, in which he argued that an Anglo-American banking elite have worked together for centuries to spread certain values globally.
