The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant….

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it an….

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experien….

Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on ….

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control….

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, b….

For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the disti….

We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from h….

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 per….

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turn….

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

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 struct….

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 ex….

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, althou….

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification co….

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

This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astron….

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a l….

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to d….

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