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Top 25 Raymond Williams Quotes (2025 Update)

Raymond Williams Quote: “Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”

1. “Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.”

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

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.”

3. “There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.”

4. “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.”

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

— Raymond Williams

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

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

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

7. “The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.”

8. “The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”

9. “Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “What is often being argued, it seems to me, in the idea of nature is the idea of man; and this not only generally, or in ultimate ways, but the idea of man in society, indeed the ideas of kinds of societies.”

10. “What is often being argued, it seems to me, in the idea of nature is the idea of man; and this not only generally, or in ultimate ways, but the idea of man in society, indeed the ideas of kinds of societies.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.”

11. “Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.”

12. “Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.”

13. “It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.”

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Raymond Williams Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “He’s studying Wales,’ Eira said, ’and he goes to London to do it.”

15. “He’s studying Wales,’ Eira said, ’and he goes to London to do it.”

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Raymond Williams Quote: “We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.”

16. “We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.”

18. “When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.”

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

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “That a life lasts longer than the actual body through which it moves.”

20. “That a life lasts longer than the actual body through which it moves.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “The total effect of Orwell’s work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man committed to decency who actualised a distinctive squalor.”

21. “The total effect of Orwell’s work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man committed to decency who actualised a distinctive squalor.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.”

22. “If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “When you’re young,’ Harry said, ’you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it.”

23. “When you’re young,’ Harry said, ’you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “The visitor sees beauty; the inhabitant a place where he works and has his friends.”

24. “The visitor sees beauty; the inhabitant a place where he works and has his friends.”

— Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams Quote: “But a father is more than a person, he’s in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.”

25. “But a father is more than a person, he’s in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.”

— Raymond Williams

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