Raymond Williams Quotes

Raymond Williams — Welsh Novelist born on August 31, 1921, died on January 26, 1988

Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions alone and there are many translations available. His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach... (wikipedia)

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

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

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