By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and….

everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established soci….

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that ar….

One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ….

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

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….

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….

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

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invad….

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….

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 ul….

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

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it..

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….

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

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

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

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….

The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable a….