There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses
Raymond WilliamsRead
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Understanding is fundamental to human action and resolving crises.
This quote by Raymond Williams emphasizes that crises in human experience are deeply rooted in our understanding of the world. When we truly grasp a situation, we gain the power to act effectively and bring about change, suggesting that comprehension is the first step toward resolution and progress.
Themes
UnderstandingCrisisHuman ActionKnowledgeComprehension
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion on social issues, one can use this quote to highlight the importance of understanding the root causes of the crisis.
More from Raymond Williams
All quotes →Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
Raymond WilliamsRead
Similar quotes
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.
Steven EriksonRead
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
Baruch SpinozaRead
The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.
R. C. SproulRead
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceRead
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
Paul David TrippRead