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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 relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs

E. P. Thompson's Popular Quotes

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 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…

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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 marriage…

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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…

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The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

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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…

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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…

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

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