N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

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.

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

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

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.

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

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