"Culture is one of the two or three……" — Raymond Williams
"Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language."
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12 Quotes by Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams has 12 quotes on this site.
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We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for…
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A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
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There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their…
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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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…
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Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to…
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On…
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
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More Complicated Quotes
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when…
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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they…
— Dave Barry
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going…
— Joe Biden
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
— Chaz Bono
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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they…
— Alain de Botton
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of…
— Barbara Boxer
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I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.
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I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm…
— Jo Brand
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Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
— Jeff Bridges
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