Niall Ferguson Quotes
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From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of budget deficits but…
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American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need…
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It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate…
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No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
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The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.
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It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average…
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A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
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As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
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Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.
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Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great…
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For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one…
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When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.
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I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.
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I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and…
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The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.
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If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to…
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I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of…
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Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It…
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I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
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