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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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