“The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“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… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
![“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 to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the…” quote by Eric Hobsbawm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dfd/eric-hobsbawm-20660_century_he-napoleon-had-destroyed-only-one-thing_1313226.jpg)
