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Quotes from Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals — Carroll Quigley

1910–1977

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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.

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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.

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

Our society has so cluttered our lives with artifacts [man-made things]... and organizational structures that [our] moment to moment relationships with nature are almost impossible.

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

...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.

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

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...

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carroll Quigley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.