Raymond Williams Quotes

12 quotes in 215 categories

• We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to…
• Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
• A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
• The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
• There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses
• To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
• What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
• The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
• 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 still…
• 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…
• 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…
• To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

Browse Raymond Williams Quotes by Category