Quotes by E. J. Hobsbawm

Quotes 1 till 4 of 4.

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

  ― E. J. Hobsbawm
  - +

   0
• 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
  - +

   0
• 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
  - +

   0
• 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.

  ― E. J. Hobsbawm
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• heroin-addicts
• contradictions
• consequences
• individuals
• activities
• material

Similar authors

• Edward Gibbon
  British historian 27
• A. J. P. Taylor
  British historian 23
• James A. Froude
  British Historian 18
• Arnold J. Toynbee
  British historian and author 13
• Lord Acton
  British historian 10
• William Winwood Reade
  British historian 5
• George Macaulay Trevelyan
  British historian and academic 4
• Mandell Creighton
  British historian and bishop 1

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations