E. P. Thompson Quotes

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

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.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

My immediate family is real close-knit.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

How much service have I rendered to my people?

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.