E. P. Thompson Quotes
18 quotes
in 323 categories
-
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
-
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
-
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 important…
-
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
-
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 going…
-
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
-
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
-
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think…
-
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 measures…
-
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
-
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…
-
At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.
-
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.
-
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…
-
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
-
I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
-
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is…
-
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived…
Browse E. P. Thompson Quotes by Category