Eric Hobsbawm
Biography
Quotes
- 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.
- As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
- Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
