Crisis Quote by Raymond Williams

“The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.”

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

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

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

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Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man…

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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…

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

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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…

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

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Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most…

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If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears…

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Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the…

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Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a…

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