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Eric Hobsbawm Quotes
Page 1 of 1Eric Hobsbawm
June 8, 1917 -
Nationality: British
Category: Historian
Subcategory: British Historian
|  Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. | | As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. | | There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities. | | It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. | | Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. |
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