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Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.
Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict (1999)
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
The Age of Extremes (1992)
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms.
In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.
The Age of Extremes (1992)
My object is to understand ad explain why things turned out the way they did, and how they hang together.
The Age of Extremes (1992)
Words are witnesses which often speak louder than documents.
The Age of Revolution (1962)
First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Banditry is freedom, but in a peasant society few can be free. most are shackled by double chains of lordship and labour, one reinforcing the other.
Bandits (1969)
The progress of science is not a simple linear advance, each stage marking the solution of posing of problems previously implicit or explicit in it, and in turn posing new problems.
The Age of Revolution (1962)
Of all the economic consequences of the age of dual revolution this division between the ‘advanced’ and the ‘underdeveloped’ countries proved to be the most profound and the most lasting.
The Age of Revolution (1962)
The love affair between intellectuals and Marxism which is so characteristic of our age developed relatively late in western Europe, though in Russia itself it began in Marx's own lifetime.
Intellectuals and Communism (1964)
The tragedy of the October revolution was precisely that it could only produce its kind of ruthless, brutal, command socialism.
The Age of Extremes (1992)
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
The Age of Extremes (1992)
In terms of political geography, The French Revolution ended the European Middle Ages.
The Age of Revolution (1962)
The really frightening risk of war was neglect, filth, poor organization, defective medical services, and hygenic ignorance, which conditions (as in the troops) practically everybody.
The Age of Revolution (1962)
History as inspiration and ideology has a built-in tendency to become self-justifying myth. Nothing is a more dangerous blindfold than this, as the history of modern nations and nationalisms demonstrates.
On History (1997)
Uncertainty and unpredictability impended. Compass needles no longer had a North, maps became useless.
The Age of Extremes (1992)
'Europe' had been on the defensive for a millennium. Now, for half a millennium, it conquered the world. Both observations make it impossible to sever European history from world history.
On History (1997)
People may not like to meet bandits, especially on a dark night, but a taste for reading about them seems to be universal.
Bandits (1969)