All James Buchan Quotes
- The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists… Abolish
- To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old… Better
- Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. All
- Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale… Bears
- Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of… All
- Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's… Annexation
- For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or… All
- The dividing line between wish and need was never clear. Clear
- Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed,… All
- Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business… Been
- Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a… Attends
- Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty… Been
- The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded… Academy
- In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul… Bear
- Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do.… Accumulate