The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. — 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 experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this… — Raymond Williams Copy Share
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
