“Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.” WorldAgeOrderThreeChallengesFinancialChiefsBirthday60th Birthday Author:James Buchan
“The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.” WorldFallDoubtNo DoubtEmpiresSurvivedSplendidCivilisationRoman EmpireRoman Civilization Author:James Buchan
“My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.” WorldRealityBeliefCitiesExistenceFashionSourceConsequencePoliceComplexesExpertsProvisionBaffledDwellers Author:James Buchan
“In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.” WorldPlayEyePastImaginationForeverFinancialStreamsRisingOptimistRevenueBullsFinancial Markets Author:James Buchan
“It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.” WorldEndsWholeHelpingInterestEconomicPolicyWesternIraqWhole WorldRegionsNeglectSouthernPalestineGrievanceKashmir Author:James Buchan
“Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.” WorldWarStruggleViolenceModernCenturyEuropeSuicidePropertyEastRussiaWar Of The WorldsVietnamSuicidalTacticsExclusiveVietnam War19th CenturyBombingSecond World WarMuslim WorldSri Lanka Author:James Buchan
“The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.” WorldSufferingNew YorkMessagesTradeAircraftPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:James Buchan
“The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.” MenWorldCountryFormLiteratureHalfNovelGenerationsDogStyleFemalePressesPopulationGreat MenBitesArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisThis GenerationFree PressProminenceWorld Literature Author:James Buchan
“The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.” PeopleWorldUseEarthCitiesMillionsCenturyPopulationCornersPlentyEaseFuelAllowingToilRefinedGreat CitiesPetroleumCorners Of The World Author:James Buchan
“The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.” WorldFormGivenForceTechnologyMilitaryEternalWesternAppreciatedDominionOrganisationMilitary Force Author:James Buchan
“What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.” WorldImportantEndsFeltPresidentInterestLeaderViolenceKingsHusseinMixturesPrestigeAssad Author:James Buchan
“When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.” WorldResultsGenerationsSucceedFairsWideRealmsAnother WorldSurveysThoroughConquerorDispassionateGloucesterWilliam The Conqueror Author:James Buchan
“Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.” WorldHas BeensAspectDestructionIndiaWestBritishRelativeDeclineEgyptInvasionBaghdadMuslim WorldMongolsAnnexation Author:James Buchan
