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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
The Argonauts looked at one another in amazement and exclaimed with one voice: 'Hercules!
— Robert Graves
Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy
— Eric Hobsbawm
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
— Eric Hobsbawm
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
— 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 only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.
— Eric Hobsbawm
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
— Anne Tyler
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.
— Arthur Miller
For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.
— John Kinsella
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
— Eric Hobsbawm
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
— Anthony Storr
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
And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.
— Eric Hobsbawm