37 Quotes by Raymond Williams

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

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.

Eleştirellik ve üretkenlik imkânlarımız, ortak bir kelime dağarcığının varlığından kesinlikle ayrılamaz; söylemimizin zenginliği, o kelime dağarcığının zenginliğinin bir işlevidir ve o dağarcığa hâkim olup onu etkin kılmak içinse, diri zihinlere, tarihsel duyarlılığa ve bir sürü soruya kulak kesilmeliyiz.

Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world: Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.

We need to establish better complaint procedures and policies so consumers know what their rights are. They don't know what their rights are.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

They tried to kick in my front door and steal my car. The gunshots went all through the night.