Martin Jacques History Quotations
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History Quotes from:
- All History Quotes
- Edward Gibbon
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thomas Carlyle
- Henry David Thoreau
- Voltaire
- Henry Adams
- Simon Schama
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Mark Twain
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Johan Huizinga
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- George Santayana
- Antony Beevor
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Thomas Jefferson
- Albert Camus
- David Mccullough
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- Ronald Reagan
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Ability Quotes
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.
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Assumption Quotes
Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.
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