Quotes by Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

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.

Coercion

Collaboration

Empires

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

Country

Israel

Numbers

Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don’t end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon’s “Imagine.” What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.

Order

People

War

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 also the domestic and foreign policies.

Determined

Men

World

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

Brother

Imagine

Massachusetts

I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe’s PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it’s America.

America

Civilization

Europe

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 what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

Circles

Important

Thinking

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

18th Century

19th Century

Century

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.

Arms

Jobs

Men

In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler’s territorial ambitions. All you’d have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.

Ambition

Military

Simple

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18th Century

19th Century

Alternatives

Ambition

America

Appetite

Arms

Average

British

Brother

Century

Circles

Civilization

Coercion

Collaboration

Country

Debtors

Determined

Empires

Europe

Fighting

Firsts

Genocide

Half

Hegemony

Historical

History

Imagine

Important

Inspiration

Israel

Jobs

Law

Massachusetts

Men

Military

Misrepresentation

Motivation

Names

Numbers

Order

People

Real

Recipes

Should

Simple

Space

Struggle

Successful

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Quotes by Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

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.

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

Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don’t end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon’s “Imagine.” What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.

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 also the domestic and foreign policies.

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

I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe’s PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it’s America.

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 what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

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

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.

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