E. P. Thompson Quotes

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

We and the beasts are kin.

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.