"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against……" — Eric Hobsbawm
"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans."
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Eric Hobsbawm
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18 Quotes by Eric Hobsbawm
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Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international…
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when…
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group,…
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Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
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The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose…
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Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy
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The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
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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…
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The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.
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The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
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