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E. P. Thompson

"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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Amber Hurdle

"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"

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Amber Hurdle

"A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

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Amber Hurdle

"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"

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Amber Hurdle

"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"

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Amber Hurdle

"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."

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Amber Hurdle

"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."

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E. P. Thompson
"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."

Politics

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E. P. Thompson
"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."

Society

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E. P. Thompson
"The missiles come first, and the justifications come second."

Politics

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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 garden to dig."

Peace

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E. P. Thompson
"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."

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E. P. Thompson
"For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours."

Politics

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

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

Leadership

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E. P. Thompson
"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."

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