It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self…

- Francis Fukuyama

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 po…

- Francis Fukuyama

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

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advant…

- Francis Fukuyama

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…

- Francis Fukuyama

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

- Francis Fukuyama

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 eith…

- Francis Fukuyama

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 o…

- Francis Fukuyama

Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-intere…

- Francis Fukuyama