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

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

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

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

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

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