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.

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.

Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.

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

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

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