E. P. Thompson Quotations

He has been struggling with a bit of a shoulder injury and if he wants to rest then I will under-stand.

I was paralyzed, had no right arm at all,

This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

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

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

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.

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.

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

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