• ...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.

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

  Carroll Quigley
  American historian and theorist
  

  - +

   0

Check all quotes by Carroll Quigley

Subjects in these quotes:

1. organization
2. territorial
3. romans
4. power
5. basis

Similar authors

• Henry Brooks Adams
  American historian 0
• Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 0
• George Bancroft
  American historian 0
• Christopher Lasch
  American historian 0
• Elting E. Morison
  American historian 0
• Herbert J. Muller
  American historian and author 0
• James Harvey Robinson
  American historian 0
• Arthur Schlesinger
  American historian and Democratic politician 0

...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. by : Carroll Quigley

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations