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

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience (social, emotional and religious) to the lower (military and political) or to the upper (ideological). They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology.

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.