Francis Fukuyama quotes
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“As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.”
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“If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members”
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“Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.”
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : "The Colbert Report", May 02, 2011.
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“The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA ...”
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : Francis Fukuyama, United States Institute of Peace (1990). “A Look at "The end of history?"”, United States Inst of Peace Pr
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“What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.”
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
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“For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society”
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
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“The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.”
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
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“The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared”
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : Francis Fukuyama (1995). “Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity”, Free Pr
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“Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation”
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“If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge...”
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“It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master”
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
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“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
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