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> [“If their way was a blind alley, let us not deny them the longing for liberty and justice which moved them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/if-their-way-was-a-blind-alley-let-us-not-deny-them-the-longing-for/)

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## More by Eric Hobsbawm

> [All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/all-professionals-whether-physicists-economists-or-musicians-live-by/)

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> [Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/many-years-later-another-marxian-rephrased-this-as-the-choice-between/)

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> [N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/n-s-khrushchev-established-his-supremacy-in-the-u-s-s-r-after-post/)

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> [The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/the-only-certain-thing-about-the-future-is-that-it-will-surprise-even/)

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> [Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/nations-without-a-past-are-contradictions-in-terms-what-makes-a/)

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> [As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/as-the-global-expansion-of-indian-and-chinese-restaurants-suggests/)

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> [The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/the-imagined-community-of-millions-seems-more-real-as-a-team-of/)

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> [ He\[Napoleon\] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/he-napoleon-had-destroyed-only-one-thing-the-jacobin-revolution-the/)

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> [It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/it-is-one-of-the-ironies-of-this-strange-century-that-the-most/)

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> [There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/there-is-not-much-that-even-the-most-socially-responsible-scientists/)

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> [Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/human-beings-are-not-efficiently-designed-for-a-capitalist-system-of/)

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> [Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/xenophobia-looks-like-becoming-the-mass-ideology-of-the-20th-century/)

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> [“For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/for-whatever-was-the-case-in-de-tocqueville-s-day-not-the-passion-for/)

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> [Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/telephone-and-telegraph-were-better-means-of-communication-than-the/)

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> [No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/no-serious-historian-of-nations-and-nationalism-can-be-a-committed/)

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