There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

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.

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Walls of worry surround us everyday & we can never run away, But remember Walls only block sides, Never the sky. Look Up, The ray of Light & Hope You will Get it.. Have Confidence in You :)

On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind.

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a stable routine.

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.