All James Buchan Quotes
- Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. Democracy
- A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as… Ago
- Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. Any
- Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. Children
- Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. Crises
- Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to… All
- Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically… According
- Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. Always Depend
- Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who… Afghanistan
- All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay. All
- Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. Age
- By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. Aid
- If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. Dispassionate
- Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated. Capital
- Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. Arabia
- The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. Civilisation
- We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen. Best
- Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. Arabs
- Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. Bankers
- For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear… Been
- Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or… Adventurer
- My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision… Baffled
- Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the… Align
- The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words,… Any
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine… Abolish