Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence,"… — 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
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
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
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
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
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share
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
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
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
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
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share