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Explore our hand-picked selection of 23 inspiring quotes by Eric Hobsbawm.

About Eric Hobsbawm

  • Born: June 9, 1917
  • Died: October 1, 2012
  • Occupation: Historian
    • 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.
    Science Groups Scientist
    (carmine crocco) a farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. he joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the bourbon side.
    Army Past Men
    Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy
    Communication Mean Men
    N. s. khrushchev established his supremacy in the u.s.s.r. after post-stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). this admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. he was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state
    Boys Years Peaceful
    It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. alas, it rarely does.
    Book Writing Printed Word
    The most lasting and universal consequence of the french revolution is the metric system
    Metrics Revolution Metric System
    All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.
    Differences People Musician
    As the global expansion of indian and chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
    Xenophobia Racism People
    He[napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the jacobin revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. it was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, even in his own country.
    Dream Country Memories
    Many years later, another marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.
    Years Choices Twenties
    The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.
    Real Team People
    Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.
    Xenophobia Looks Becoming
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