All James Buchan Quotes
- 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
- To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and… Amiability
- Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe… Adolf
- At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own… Aid
- Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more… America
- Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash… Accounting
- In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money -… Absolved
- In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future,… Bull
- It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual… Actual
- One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. Admirable
- One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid… Authenticity
- Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York… Arab
- Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil… All
- Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the… Bombing
- The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which… Aircraft
- The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… Arabia