Top 37 Quotes by Niall Ferguson

About Niall Ferguson

These are some quotes by British author Niall Ferguson Historian, who was born on April 18, 1964.

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

Niall Ferguson

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

Niall Ferguson

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

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

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.

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

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

Niall Ferguson

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

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

Niall Ferguson

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

Niall Ferguson

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Niall Ferguson

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

Niall Ferguson

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