There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

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

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

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.

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

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.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses