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The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
- Niall Ferguson
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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
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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
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It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.
- Niall Ferguson
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I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.
- Niall Ferguson
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One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.
- Niall Ferguson
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Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
- Niall Ferguson
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In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.
- Niall Ferguson
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If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.
- Niall Ferguson
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Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
- Niall Ferguson
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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
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A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
- Niall Ferguson
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I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Niall Ferguson
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There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
- Niall Ferguson
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Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.
- Niall Ferguson
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The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.
- Niall Ferguson
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