20th century Quote by Eric Hobsbawm Download Open image “Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.” — Eric Hobsbawm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare 20th century Becoming Century Fins Ideology Looks Mass Xenophobia
We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world. — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
“Xenophobia doesn't always look like a monument of shame. It doesn't always look like ridicule and jeering. It looks like a room full of… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism. — David Cross Copy Share Image
We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“Nowadays negative press & media might make people scared of everything foreign or different: culture, religion, people and the places themselves. This xenophobia is… — William Wyatt Copy Share Image
“The disposition, in any conflict, to side with ‘them’ against ‘us’, and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Hate crimes have increased since the election of Donald Trump. So I'm not surprised. I'm hopeful, very vigilant. We're seeing the same thing as… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened xenophobes. — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
“Looking for fears, indeed, may be a more fruitful research strategy than a literal-minded quest for thinkers who “created” fascism.” — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
A fascist individual and regime thrives on this perception of fear they build up. — Reham Khan 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
“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
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image