The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

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

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

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

I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.