"It's all very well for us to sit……" — Niall Ferguson
"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 the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out."
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Niall Ferguson
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27 Quotes by Niall Ferguson
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From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the…
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American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is…
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For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan.…
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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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