The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up… — 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 to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share
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
