Hobsbawm Nationalism Quotes

#1. had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's

Daniel Keyes

#2. America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Theodore White

#3. I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

Dorothy Allison

#4. Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Frantz Fanon

#5. The children are all crying in their pens
and the surf carries their cries away.
They are old men who have seen too much,
their mouths are full of dirty clothes,
the tongues poverty, tears like puss.
The surf pushes their cries back.
Listen.

Anne Sexton

#6. It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.

Gary Neville

#8. The teacher has more power than the Minister.

Andy Hargreaves

#9. [N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist ... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

Eric Hobsbawm

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

Eric Hobsbawm

#11. We are probably wrong to suspect that each individual has some secret passion, some mystery, some weakness; if Jean-Yves's father had had to express his innermost convictions, the profound meaning he ascribed to life, he could probably have cited nothing more than a slight disappointment.

Michel Houellebecq

#12. Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.

Thomas A Kempis