Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

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

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.

It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy