Quotes by Hobsbawm, E. J.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a natio >>

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to he >>

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of t >>

Quotations about Nations

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religi >>

Nations, like men, have their infancy. >>

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insec >>

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.

Hobsbawm, E. J.