E. P. Thompson Quotes

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• 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…

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