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Persons, personalities if you wish, can only be made in communities.

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When Rome fell, the Christian answer was, "Create our own communities."

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When these extremists argued for "either-or," the Western tradition answered "both!"

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

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No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

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Men have social needs. They have a need for other people; they have a need to love and be loved.

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

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Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

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When you destroy people's religious expression, they will establish secularized religions like Marxism.

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

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Another aspect of the nineteenth century propaganda system is the increasing emphasis upon material desires.

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... empires and civilizations do not collapse because of deficiencies on the military or the political levels.

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Every civilization must be organized in such a way that it has invention, capital accumulation, and investment.

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The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

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Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

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This book is not a history. Rather it is an attempt to establish analytical tools that will assist the understanding of history

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... today everything is commercialized—politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services.... Everything has its price.

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Closely related to the erroneous idea that science is a body of knowledge is the equally erroneous idea that scientific theories are true.

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

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We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries...

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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.

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In its final stages the civilization becomes a dualism of almost totalitarian imperial power and an amorphous mass culture of atomized individuals.

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... Western Civilization began to expand in 976.... The economic expansion was achieved chiefly by specialization and exchange... commercialization.

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

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The link between a society, whether it be made up of communities or individuals, and a state is this: Power rests on the ability to satisfy human needs.

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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.

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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.

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It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

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... 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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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 one.

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