Niall Ferguson Quotes - Page 2

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

  Niall Ferguson

  Struggle, Successful, Debtors

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• 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.

  Niall Ferguson

  Military, Ambition, Simple

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

  Niall Ferguson

  Brother, Massachusetts, Imagine

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

  Niall Ferguson

  History, Empires, Genocide

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• 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.

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  Civilization, America, Europe

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• 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

  History, Racist, Prosperity

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

  Niall Ferguson

  Fighting, History, Victory

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

  Niall Ferguson

  School, Oxford, Firsts

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• Cuando los precios de los bonos caen, los tipos de interés se disparan, con dolorosas consecuencias para todos los prestatarios.

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  Fall, Painful, Interest

  Niall Ferguson (2008). “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”, p.45, Penguin

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• 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

  Guy, Finding Yourself, Collaboration

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• El ascenso de Occidente es, sencillamente, el fenómeno histórico preeminente de la segunda mitad del segundo milenio después de Cristo.

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  Historical, Half, West

  Niall Ferguson (2011). “Civilization: The West and the Rest”, p.36, Penguin

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• Si el sistema financiero tiene un defecto, es que refleja y magnifica cómo somos los seres humanos. El dinero amplifica nuestra tendencia a reaccionar de forma exagerada, a pasar de la exuberancia cuando las cosas van bien a una profunda depresión cuando van mal. Los auges y las crisis son producto, en el fondo, de nuestra volatilidad emocional.

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  Emotional, Swings, Roots

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

  Niall Ferguson

  Century, 18th Century, 19th Century

  "The history boy". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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