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

- 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 gar…

- E. P. Thompson

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 marriage…

- E. P. Thompson

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has…

- E. P. Thompson

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

- E. P. Thompson

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformat…

- E. P. Thompson

I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human re…

- E. P. Thompson

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

- E. P. Thompson

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

- E. P. Thompson