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Niall Ferguson Quote: “The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It’s a prurience that I’ve never understood.”

51. “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

Niall Ferguson Quote: “When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.”

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

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Unlike in the past, there are now two kinds of people in the world: those who own and run the networks, and those who merely use them.”

53. “Unlike in the past, there are now two kinds of people in the world: those who own and run the networks, and those who merely use them.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation to some vaguely specified context. We must now acknowledge, however, that some ideas go viral because of structural features of the network through which they spread. They are least likely to do so in a hierarchical, top-down network, where horizontal peer-to-peer links are prohibited.”

54. “Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation to some vaguely specified context. We must now acknowledge, however, that some ideas go viral because of structural features of the network through which they spread. They are least likely to do so in a hierarchical, top-down network, where horizontal peer-to-peer links are prohibited.”

— Niall Ferguson

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

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

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “I can’t imagine having a conversation about ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ in Cambridge, Massachusetts.”

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

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “The subprime butterfly had flapped its wings and triggered a global hurricane.”

57. “The subprime butterfly had flapped its wings and triggered a global hurricane.”

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Niall Ferguson Quote: “Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. In 2008 alone is really inventors applied to register 9591 new patents. The equivalent figure for Iran was 50 and for all majority Muslim countries in the world with 5657.”

58. “Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. In 2008 alone is really inventors applied to register 9591 new patents. The equivalent figure for Iran was 50 and for all majority Muslim countries in the world with 5657.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “What the complacent Russians forgot was that their strengths – above all, their technological superiority – were not a permanent monopoly conferred by Providence on people with white skin. There was in fact nothing biological to prevent Asians from adopting Western forms of economic and political organization, nor from replicating Western inventions. The first Asian country to work out how to do so was Japan.”

59. “What the complacent Russians forgot was that their strengths – above all, their technological superiority – were not a permanent monopoly conferred by Providence on people with white skin. There was in fact nothing biological to prevent Asians from adopting Western forms of economic and political organization, nor from replicating Western inventions. The first Asian country to work out how to do so was Japan.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Indeed, there were those who maintained that Russia’s defeat at the hands of the Japanese was itself the result of a Jewish conspiracy. According to S. A. Nilus, a secret Jewish council known as the Sanhedrin had hypnotized the Japanese into believing they were one of the tribes of Israel; it was the Jews’ aim, Nilus insisted, ‘to set a distraught Russia awash with blood and to inundate it, and then Europe, with the yellow hordes of a resurgent China guided by Japan’. The.”

60. “Indeed, there were those who maintained that Russia’s defeat at the hands of the Japanese was itself the result of a Jewish conspiracy. According to S. A. Nilus, a secret Jewish council known as the Sanhedrin had hypnotized the Japanese into believing they were one of the tribes of Israel; it was the Jews’ aim, Nilus insisted, ‘to set a distraught Russia awash with blood and to inundate it, and then Europe, with the yellow hordes of a resurgent China guided by Japan’. The.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Large numbers of under-capitalized banks were a recipe for financial instability, and panics were a regular feature of American economic life – most spectacularly in the Great Depression, when a major banking crisis was exacerbated rather than mitigated by a monetary authority that had been operational for little more than fifteen years.”

61. “Large numbers of under-capitalized banks were a recipe for financial instability, and panics were a regular feature of American economic life – most spectacularly in the Great Depression, when a major banking crisis was exacerbated rather than mitigated by a monetary authority that had been operational for little more than fifteen years.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond – to claim his pound of flesh – the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio’s blood.”

62. “Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond – to claim his pound of flesh – the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio’s blood.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “It is not the fault of the mirror if it reflects our blemishes as clearly as our beauty.”

63. “It is not the fault of the mirror if it reflects our blemishes as clearly as our beauty.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “There may be a lesson here for our time, too. The first era of financial globalization took at least a generation to achieve. But it was blown apart in a matter of days. And it would take more than two generations to repair the damage done by the guns of August 1914.”

64. “There may be a lesson here for our time, too. The first era of financial globalization took at least a generation to achieve. But it was blown apart in a matter of days. And it would take more than two generations to repair the damage done by the guns of August 1914.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with the means of recording and preserving thought. In the end, history is primarily the study of civilizations, because without written records the historian is thrown back on spearheads and pot fragments, from which much less can be inferred. The.”

65. “One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with the means of recording and preserving thought. In the end, history is primarily the study of civilizations, because without written records the historian is thrown back on spearheads and pot fragments, from which much less can be inferred. The.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “There are two disadvantages to this political fragmentation. Small countries are often formed as a result of civil war within an earlier multi-ethnic polity – the most common form of conflict since 1945. That in itself is economically disruptive. In addition, they can be economically inefficient even in peacetime, too small to justify all the paraphernalia of statehood.”

66. “There are two disadvantages to this political fragmentation. Small countries are often formed as a result of civil war within an earlier multi-ethnic polity – the most common form of conflict since 1945. That in itself is economically disruptive. In addition, they can be economically inefficient even in peacetime, too small to justify all the paraphernalia of statehood.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Outlandish ideas stand a better chance of success if they come with royal approval.”

67. “Outlandish ideas stand a better chance of success if they come with royal approval.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around the world.”

68. “Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around the world.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “The great thinkers of the eighteenth century were also pioneering tourists.”

69. “The great thinkers of the eighteenth century were also pioneering tourists.”

— Niall Ferguson

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

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

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “In most history, success is over-represented, for the victors out-write the losers. In the history of networks, the opposite often applies. Successful networks evade public attention; unsuccessful ones attract it, and it is their notoriety, rather than their achievement, that leads to their over-representation.”

71. “In most history, success is over-represented, for the victors out-write the losers. In the history of networks, the opposite often applies. Successful networks evade public attention; unsuccessful ones attract it, and it is their notoriety, rather than their achievement, that leads to their over-representation.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Sometimes, as in the case of the American Revolution, crucial roles turn out to have been played by people who were not leaders but connectors.”

72. “Sometimes, as in the case of the American Revolution, crucial roles turn out to have been played by people who were not leaders but connectors.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter,’ he told the Wall Street Journal. ‘But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

73. “I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter,’ he told the Wall Street Journal. ‘But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “The torrent of verbiage comes about because professional politicians are more concerned with spin than substance, the media never cease to howl for ‘something’ to be done after every mishap, the lobbyists ensure that the small print protects the vested interests they serve, and the lawyers profit from the whole sorry mess.5.”

74. “The torrent of verbiage comes about because professional politicians are more concerned with spin than substance, the media never cease to howl for ‘something’ to be done after every mishap, the lobbyists ensure that the small print protects the vested interests they serve, and the lawyers profit from the whole sorry mess.5.”

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Niall Ferguson Quote: “Technologies come and go. The world remains a world of squares and towers.”

75. “Technologies come and go. The world remains a world of squares and towers.”

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Niall Ferguson Quote: “From Boston to Bordeaux, revolution was in large measure the achievement of networks of wordsmiths, the best of whom were also orators whose shouted words could rally the crowd in the square and incite them to storm the towers of the old regime.”

76. “From Boston to Bordeaux, revolution was in large measure the achievement of networks of wordsmiths, the best of whom were also orators whose shouted words could rally the crowd in the square and incite them to storm the towers of the old regime.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity – and by the historical ignorance that feeds it.”

77. “The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity – and by the historical ignorance that feeds it.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “You will look in vain for a European search engine, a European online retailer, a European social network. The biggest EU-based Internet company is Spotify, the Stockholm-based music and video streaming company founded in 2006.”

78. “You will look in vain for a European search engine, a European online retailer, a European social network. The biggest EU-based Internet company is Spotify, the Stockholm-based music and video streaming company founded in 2006.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Drawing on the best modern scholarship, this book seeks to rescue the history of networks from the clutches of the conspiracy theorists, and to show that historical change often can and should be understood in terms of precisely such network-based challenges to hierarchical orders.”

79. “Drawing on the best modern scholarship, this book seeks to rescue the history of networks from the clutches of the conspiracy theorists, and to show that historical change often can and should be understood in terms of precisely such network-based challenges to hierarchical orders.”

— Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “All rapidly accumulated wealth is either the result of luck or discovery, or the result of a legalised theft.”

80. “All rapidly accumulated wealth is either the result of luck or discovery, or the result of a legalised theft.”

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Niall Ferguson Quote: “The difference between Victorian liberals and Soviet Communists should now be clear. Nature, in the form of a new pathogen, played a much larger role in the Irish Famine. The Ukrainian Holodomor, by contrast, was largely man-made and with malice aforethought.”

81. “The difference between Victorian liberals and Soviet Communists should now be clear. Nature, in the form of a new pathogen, played a much larger role in the Irish Famine. The Ukrainian Holodomor, by contrast, was largely man-made and with malice aforethought.”

— Niall Ferguson

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