Freedom Quote 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…

— Eric Hobsbawm

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

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

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

— Eric Hobsbawm

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

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

— Eric Hobsbawm

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

— Eric Hobsbawm

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

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

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

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

— Eric Hobsbawm

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

— Eric Hobsbawm