Quotes by : Niall Ferguson

Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism....

The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly....

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever....

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected.....

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying....

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble....

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's)....

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx....

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of....