Francis Fukuyama Quotes

• 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.

  Francis Fukuyama

  People, Vision, Working Together

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• China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Taken, Broken, Chinese

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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 Fukuyama

  Self, Desire, Identity

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.198, 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 Fukuyama

  Organization, Political, Common

  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 Fukuyama

  Desire, Determined, Prosperity

  Francis Fukuyama (1995). “Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity”, Free Pr

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• In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Organization, Share, Structure

  Francis Fukuyama (1995). “Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity”, Free Pr

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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 Fukuyama

  Mean, Self, Feelings

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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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 Fukuyama

  Mean, Unions, May

  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 Fukuyama

  Country, Block, Europe

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Francis Fukuyama

  Levels, Behavior, Ethical

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• Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

  Francis Fukuyama

  Degrees, Economics, Individual

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• Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Self, Important, Fundamentals

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• For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

  Francis Fukuyama

  Capitalism, Mobile

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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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 Fukuyama

  Mean, Blow, Space

  "The Colbert Report", May 02, 2011.

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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.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Kindness, Reality, Thought Provoking

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