In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

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.

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

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

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

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.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.