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> [“Capitalism seems to have failed and is now stigmatized as greed. A reaction against individual excess is driving the world back to collective values. Fear of terror overrides rights; fear of slumps subverts free markets. Consumption levels and urbanization are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/capitalism-seems-to-have-failed-and-is-now-stigmatized-as-greed-a/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

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## More by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

> [“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align him with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/his-addiction-to-millenarianism-his-confidence-in-visions-his/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/when-the-united-states-wants-cheap-labor-mexicans-respond-when-the/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“Unless US citizens acknowledge and understand their country's imperial past, they will not be able to understand its present or future. Much of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/unless-us-citizens-acknowledge-and-understand-their-country-s/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“to become a great saint, it is no bad first step to be a big sinner.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/to-become-a-great-saint-it-is-no-bad-first-step-to-be-a-big-sinner/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He’s last voyage, probably as a result of”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/chinese-naval-activity-for-instance-was-aborted-after-zheng-he-s-last/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/their-ships-were-steeds-and-they-rode-the-waves-like-jennets/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“Capitalism seems to have failed and is now stigmatized as greed. A reaction against individual excess is driving the world back to collective values.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/capitalism-seems-to-have-failed-and-is-now-stigmatized-as-greed-a/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“Only three routes of upward mobility were available to socially ambitious upstarts such as Columbus: war, the Church, and the sea. Columbus probably contemplated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/only-three-routes-of-upward-mobility-were-available-to-socially/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“in their supposed innocence of and opposition to empire, have become the mythic progenitors of the United States—almost as improbably as Solomon was of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/in-their-supposed-innocence-of-and-opposition-to-empire-have-become/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/like-poor-immigrants-throughout-the-ages-jews-there-adjusted-to-the/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/as-populations-crowd-toward-the-ocean-s-edge-and-the-sea-encroaches/)

[Felipe Fernandez-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/all-definitions-of-civilization-along-to-a-conjugation-which-goes-i/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“To understand what was in Ivan’s mind, one has to think back to what the world was like before Machiavelli. The modern calculus of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/to-understand-what-was-in-ivan-s-mind-one-has-to-think-back-to-what/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [There has never been nationhood without falsehood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/there-has-never-been-nationhood-without-falsehood/)

[Felipe Fernandez-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

> [“An age of expansion really did begin, but the phenomenon was of an expanding world, not, as some historians say, of European expansion. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/an-age-of-expansion-really-did-begin-but-the-phenomenon-was-of-an/)

[Felipe Fernández-Armesto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felipe-fern-ndez-armesto/)

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