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.

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

Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.

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.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West