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E. P. Thompson quotes

British Historian February 3, 1924 – August 28, 1993

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E. P. Thompson quote: "I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership..."
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not. 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 it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made. E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson quote: "The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed..."
The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making. 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 you are going back to your own garden to dig. E. P. Thompson
In the "free world" (Natopolis) the centres of ideological orthodoxy are rarely defined. The diversity of intellectual trends within the orthodoxy, the indeterminate and shifting character of its boundaries, the existence of real centres of dissent (and the licence given to even Stalinist opposition)--all these conspire to create the central illusion of "Natopolitan" culture, that there is in fact no orthodoxy but only an infinite variety of opinions among which one is free to choose. 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 Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British. 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 overdue for measures of democratization and organization. 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 political situations contrived out of which they could be justified. E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson quote: "The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be..."
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all. 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 that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson quote: "The missiles come first, and the justifications come second."
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second. E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson quote: "I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range..."
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side. E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson quote: "I am convinced that we are in a terminal process."
I am convinced that we are in a terminal process. E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson quote: "For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these..."
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson quote: "There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European..."
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. E. P. Thompson

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