Hobsbawm Nationalism Quotes & Sayings

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

It's a terrible thing, isn't it? To be dragged under? — Guillermo Del Toro

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. — Marquis De Lafayette

And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. — Mindy Kaling

[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

For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well. — Pearl Zhu

In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Isn't it about time that we stopped wasting so much time on what a person prefers? — Karl Malone

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that — John Calipari

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves. — Mitch Daniels

Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man. — Waller R Newell

Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem — Robin Sharma

What are your pleasures and pursuits, Lord Moncrieffe?" Miss Eversea asked too brightly, when the silence had gone on for more than was strictly comfortable or polite.
That creaky conversation lubricant. It irritated him again that she was humoring him.
"Well, I'm partial to whores."
Her head whipped toward him like a weather-vane in a hurricane. Her eyes, he noted, were enormous, and such a dark blue they were nearly purple. Her mouth dropped, and the lower lip was quivering with shock or ... or ...
"Whor ... whores ... ?" She choked out the word as if she'd just inhaled it like bad cigar smoke.
He widened his own eyes with alarm, recoiling slightly.
"I ... I beg your pardon - Horses. Honestly, Miss Eversea," he stammered. "I do wonder what you think of me if that's what you heard. — Julie Anne Long

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney