For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. E. P. Thompson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. E. P. Thompson Read Quote
I don’t care tuppence whether I’m forced into a leadership position or not. I’d much sooner not. E. P. Thompson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side. E. P. Thompson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
