"We all like to think of ourselves as……" — Raymond Williams
"We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned."
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12 Quotes by Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams has 12 quotes on this site.
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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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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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