At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
