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.

More Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

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.