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

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

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

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

Eric Hobsbawm quotes: Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

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

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

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

Eric Hobsbawm quotes: The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Hobsbawm quotes: The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force.

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

Eric Hobsbawm quotes: As one would expect of tourists, they tried to find poverty colourful,

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

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

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

Eric Hobsbawm quotes: The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

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

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

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

Eric Hobsbawm quotes: The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Hobsbawm quotes: Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

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

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

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