All James Buchan Quotes
- 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
- The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds… Allowing
- The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of… Appreciated
- There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms… Defeating
- There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times… Adjusted
- Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived… All
- We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long… Begins
- What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended… Arab
- When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset… Asset
- Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction. Addicted
- When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate,… Another World