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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  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) 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  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man’s telepathy  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) 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  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) 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  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes) First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved  (Eric Hobsbawm Quotes)