Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed:… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
