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

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….

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in complet….

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

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

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

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.….

On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achiev….

Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human c….

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

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 workin….

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 choic….

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 na….

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 so….

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable..

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide..

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 ….

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

Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated….