Eric Hobsbawm Quote

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.


Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991 (ed. 1994)


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

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

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

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