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.

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

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

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

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

A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.