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… - Carroll Quigley

...we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression.

...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...

Western ideology believed that the world was good because it was made by God in six days and that at the end of each day He looked at His work and said that it was good.