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E. P. Thompson
Age: 69 †
Born: 1924
Born: February 3
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Labor Historian
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Peace Activist
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Edward Palmer Thompson
Edward Thompson
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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.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
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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.
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
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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.
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At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history one must defend history itself.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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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.
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