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Niall Ferguson Quotes: "The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man."

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



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet."

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




Niall Ferguson Quotes: "The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos."

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space."

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.




Niall Ferguson Quotes: "The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood."

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive."

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations."

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.




Niall Ferguson Quotes: "I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance."

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement."

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to."

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible."

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




Niall Ferguson Quotes: "The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel."

The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor."

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined."

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible."

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble."

Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ."

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?"

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers."

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math."

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution."

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one."

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence."

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom."

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



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie."

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms."

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



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous."

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead."

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril"

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism"

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



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer."

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.



Niall Ferguson Quotes: "There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation."

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.