Niall Ferguson Quotes

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were pay...

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institut...

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ...

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it'...

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it'...

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx...

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disresp...

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are ...

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a hu...

Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capi...

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to st...

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of...

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws ...

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (ano...

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in ...

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, s...

What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at ...

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there ar...

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the nobl...

It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about ...