E. P. Thompson

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that…

— E. P. Thompson

This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples…

— E. P. Thompson

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument…

— E. P. Thompson

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the…

— E. P. Thompson

I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can…

— E. P. Thompson

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

— E. P. Thompson

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

— E. P. Thompson

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think…

— E. P. Thompson

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

— E. P. Thompson

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is…

— E. P. Thompson

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian…

— E. P. Thompson

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

— E. P. Thompson

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like…

— E. P. Thompson

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

— E. P. Thompson

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

— E. P. Thompson

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

— E. P. Thompson

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If…

— E. P. Thompson

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

— E. P. Thompson

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits…

— E. P. Thompson

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

— E. P. Thompson