Niall Ferguson History Quotations

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.