Top 5 Eric J. Hobsbawm Quotes (2025 Update)

Eric J. Hobsbawm Quote: “In times of revolution nothing is more powerful than the fall of symbols.”

1. “In times of revolution nothing is more powerful than the fall of symbols.”

2. “Though the web of history cannot be unravelled into separate threads without destroying it, a certain amount of subdivision of the subject is, for practical purposes, essential.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

3. “Indeed, it may be suggested that ‘traditions’ and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

4. “Even the austere philosopher Immanuel Kant of Koenigsberg, it is said, whose habits were so regular that the citizens of that town set their watches by him, postponed the hour of his afternoon stroll when he received the news, thus convincing Koenigsberg that a world-shaking event had indeed happened.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

5. “No doubt the British saw themselves fighting for liberty against tyranny; but in 1815 most Englishmen were probably poorer and worse off than they had been in 1800, while most Frenchmen were almost certainly better off; nor had any except the still negligible wage-labourers lost the substantial economic benefits of the Revolution.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

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