Quotes of E. J. Hobsbawm - somelinesforyou

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ 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. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ 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. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ 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. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable not merely thinkable but practicable… ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ 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. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

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

- E. J. Hobsbawm
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