E. P. Thompson Quotes

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

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

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

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second. - E. P. Thompson

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

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

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

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