{"author":"Martin Jacques","author_id":"Martin+Jacques","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["love","roses","losing "],"id":4183,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["car","genius","expression "],"id":51151,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["racism","admit","prepared "],"id":99619,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["past","think","idea "],"id":113992,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["leadership","time","alone "],"id":146574,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["war","down","years "],"id":147504,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["credit","disaster","nations "],"id":291633,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["beach","world","enjoy "],"id":292475,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["history","collaboration","easy "],"id":296634,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"},{"text":"Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider.","author":"Martin Jacques","tags":["life","home","age "],"id":315084,"author_id":"Martin+Jacques"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}