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

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

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

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

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive

The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force.

As one would expect of tourists, they tried to find poverty colourful,

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

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

Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.

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

Indeed, it may be suggested that 'traditions' and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related.