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Top 15 Neil MacGregor Quotes (2025 Update)

Neil MacGregor Quote: “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

1. “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

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2. “For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “Ward je in dieser Laun’ ein Weib gefreit?’: ‘Was ever woman in this humour wooed?”

3. “Ward je in dieser Laun’ ein Weib gefreit?’: ‘Was ever woman in this humour wooed?”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “Napoleon famously said that, to understand a man, you need to understand the world when he was twenty years old.”

4. “Napoleon famously said that, to understand a man, you need to understand the world when he was twenty years old.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.”

5. “The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “That idea of the state as a ship and its ruler as the helmsman or captain is a very old one in European culture. It is frequently used by Cicero, and indeed our word ‘governor’ comes from the Latin for ‘helmsman’ – gubernator. Even more enticingly, the root of gubernator is the Greek kubernetes, which is also the origin of our word ‘cybernetics’; so the notions of ruling, steering and robotics all coincide in our language – and in this galleon.”

6. “That idea of the state as a ship and its ruler as the helmsman or captain is a very old one in European culture. It is frequently used by Cicero, and indeed our word ‘governor’ comes from the Latin for ‘helmsman’ – gubernator. Even more enticingly, the root of gubernator is the Greek kubernetes, which is also the origin of our word ‘cybernetics’; so the notions of ruling, steering and robotics all coincide in our language – and in this galleon.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don’t.”

7. “Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don’t.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.”

8. “In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.”

9. “From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.”

10. “For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “Objects are better than text at conveying narrative.”

11. “Objects are better than text at conveying narrative.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “Seventeenth-century Europe was still largely illiterate – even in the cities no more than a third of people could read – so prints with images and just a few key words were the most effective means of mass communication. Even today we all know a well-crafted cartoon can be lethal in public debate.”

12. “Seventeenth-century Europe was still largely illiterate – even in the cities no more than a third of people could read – so prints with images and just a few key words were the most effective means of mass communication. Even today we all know a well-crafted cartoon can be lethal in public debate.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “Elizabethan Twitter feed; they carried news quickly, spread it widely, and their relationship to the truth was similarly easy-going.”

13. “Elizabethan Twitter feed; they carried news quickly, spread it widely, and their relationship to the truth was similarly easy-going.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “Johnstoune’s copy of the First Folio is now in Meisei University in Tokyo, but I can read it in London on my smartphone.”

14. “Johnstoune’s copy of the First Folio is now in Meisei University in Tokyo, but I can read it in London on my smartphone.”

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Neil MacGregor Quote: “It was in fact the British who first produced Beetles after the end of the Second World War, for their occupation forces.”

15. “It was in fact the British who first produced Beetles after the end of the Second World War, for their occupation forces.”

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