Community Quote by Raymond Williams

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

— Raymond Williams

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

— Raymond Williams

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

— Raymond Williams

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

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

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

— Raymond Williams

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

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

— Raymond Williams

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

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

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

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