Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West And The Rest Quotes
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.
The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.
After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism
The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril
I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.
Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.
Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.