143 Quotes by Niall Ferguson

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

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.

I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

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

I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.

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.