"Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication……" — Eric Hobsbawm
"Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy"
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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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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're…
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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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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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