"To be truly radical is to make hope……" — Raymond Williams
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable."
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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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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 Despair Quotes
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
— Georges Bataille
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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