“As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xe...” — Eric Hobsbawm Quote

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

“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.”

“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.”

“98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.”

“You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.”

“Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?”