I think that the U. S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it … - E. P. Thompson

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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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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

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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 disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

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

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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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At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

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The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

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