--- title: "3 Eric J. Hobsbawm Quotes" description: "Eric J. Hobsbawm has 3 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c09/eric-j-hobsbawm-64367_depression_economists-who-simply-advised-leaving-th_135280.jpg" --- # Eric J. Hobsbawm **3** quotes in **8** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Eric J. Hobsbawm > [“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-j-hobsbawm/economists-who-simply-advised-leaving-the-economy-alone-governments/) Eric J. Hobsbawm [Depression](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c09/eric-j-hobsbawm-64367_depression_economists-who-simply-advised-leaving-th_135280.jpg) > [“Denied a Lenin and deprived of Napoleon, France retreated into the last and, we must hope, indestructible redoubt, the world of Astérix…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-j-hobsbawm/denied-a-lenin-and-deprived-of-napoleon-france-retreated-into-the/) Eric J. Hobsbawm [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/eric-j-hobsbawm-64367_retreated_denied-a-lenin-and-deprived-of-napoleon_624172.jpg) > [“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-j-hobsbawm/memory-is-life-it-is-always-carried-by-groups-of-living-people-and/) Eric J. Hobsbawm [Biology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/eric-j-hobsbawm-64367_biology_memory-is-life-it-is-always-carried-by-g_1203427.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-j-hobsbawm/#itemlist", "name": "Eric J. Hobsbawm Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick to financial orthodoxy, balance budgets and cut costs, were visibly not making the situation better. Indeed, as the depression continued, it was argued with considerable force not least by J.M. Keynes who consequently became the most influential economist of the next forty years - that they were making the depression worse. 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