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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle .
— Eric Hobsbawm
There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.
— Yitzhak Rabin
He could have exchanged his name and address with any of his neighbours, and nothing would have been different.
— Hermann Hesse
If animals could speak, mankind would weep.
— Anthony Douglas
If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
— Anatoly Karpov
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
— Eric Hobsbawm
I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.
— Mauricio Cienfuegos
First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.
— Geri Halliwell
A woman was shot by her dog in America.
— Alex Stephens
The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive
— Eric Hobsbawm
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy
— Eric Hobsbawm
Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
— Shawnee Smith
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
— Eric Hobsbawm
The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.
— Eric Hobsbawm
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
— Eric Hobsbawm
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
— Eric Hobsbawm
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
— Harvey Fierstein
And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Indeed, it may be suggested that 'traditions' and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson