Aspect Quote by Neal Ascherson

It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and…

— Neal Ascherson

History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon…

— Neal Ascherson

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

— Neal Ascherson

The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it…

— Neal Ascherson

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

— Neal Ascherson

Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all…

— Neal Ascherson

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by,…

— Neal Ascherson

But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go…

— Neal Ascherson

In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport.…

— Neal Ascherson

“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Piłsudski”

— Neal Ascherson

I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.

— Neal Ascherson

When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of…

— Neal Ascherson