"It wasn't idealism that made me, from the……" — 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 still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute."
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Raymond Williams
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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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Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
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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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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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