The 'instinct of community' was vital in [DH Lawrence's] thinking: deeper and stronger, he argued, than even the sexual instinct - Culture and Society, 1958

The landscape of childhood never disappears, but the waking environment is adult: the street, the committee, the long, quiet library, the file of revised manuscript, the books shifting under the arm as you run for the crowded bus - Border Country, 1960

The strength of our enemies isn't to be doubted - The Practice of Possibility in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, 1987

Fascism, not only a very brutal, but a very old political philosophy - English Brecht in @lrb.co.uk, 3(13), 1981

Most of T.S. Eliot's mature work was in drama: in the plays from 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935) to 'The Elder Statesman' (1958) - Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1968

Then I am in a culture where I can breathe. Or at least take breaths to go back and contend with capitalist Europe, capitalist England and – blast it, but it was there and had to be shown in Manod – capitalist Wales - Politics and Letters, 1979

For a long time @labouruk.bsky.social in parliament has had no intention of changing the social order, though it has made some important reforms inside it. And in the same period the trade union movement has not really been pressing them - The Forward March of Labour Halted?, 1981

Semiotics in general is, without doubt, a true natural child of structuralism. It is a science of signs and a science of systems of signs (not confined to language) - Writing in Society, 1983 (published on @versobooks.bsky.social)

It is often said that there are more than six centuries of English literature. It is not often said that there are less than two centuries of English literacy - Writing in Society, 1983

Hobbes saw the state of men in nature as low, and the life of pre-social man as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short' - Ideas of Nature, 1972

Depopulation, unemployment, exploitation, poverty: if these are not part of Welsh #culture we are denying large parts of our social experience - Welsh Culture, 1975

As Orwell put it: England was a decent family with the wrong members in charge - You're a Marxist Aren't You?, 1975

Black power in the United States, civil rights in Ulster, the language in Wales, are experiences comparable in this respect to the student movement and to women’s liberation - review of Ned Thomas's The Welsh Extremist, 1971

You could talk about creating the future, but in practice, look, people ran for shelter, manoeuvred for personal convenience, accepted the facts of existing power - Border Country, 1960

Consider first where a political analysis starts. You can start from an election, and what is necessary to win it. But if you do, you have taken as central a particular fact, which then affects or determines all the subsequent analysis - May Day Manifesto 1968, 1968

Working class people have immense variations in their individual lives alongside the common property they have as workers of a class: you cannot merely say in the end, these are two sides of their life, because nobody lives like that; there is one life - Anglistica, 1978

All new means of communication have been abused, for political control (as in propaganda) or for commercial profit (advertising). We can protest such uses but unless we have a clear alternative version of human society, we are not likely to [be] effective - Communications, 1962

It really is what Morgan said: putting your own life in question. But in the end it came clear. I can feel it, though I don't understand it - Border Country, 1960

Aquinas defined #democracy as popular power, where the ordinary people, by force of numbers, governed - oppressed - the rich; the whole people acting like a tyrant - Keywords, second ed., 1983

**Charity shop find | Darganfyddwyd mewn siop elusen

News readers on both major [UK] channels are now media personalities: their identity is strongly projected, and they are presented as adding their personality to the news - notes to the 2nd ed., Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 1990

Second Generation was written at a time when I felt there was a profound crisis inside the [working] class - Politics and Letters: Interviews with @newleftreview.bsky.social, 1979

#NowReading Culture and Society by Raymond Williams, prompted by some excellent referencing by @llannerch.bsky.social at an event - what an old school beauty this is! #Booksky @r-williams-soc.bsky.social

Ignorance, though always formidable, can always be faced - Culture and Society, 1958

Nobody is quicker to agree about [nuclear] horrors than the defenders and actual executants of the arms race, who then derive their own models of deterrence and swing much public opinion behind them - The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament, in @newleftreview.bsky.social, 1980

Bianchi argues that 'more than any other English-language writer in Wales, R.S. Thomas has been reconstructed in the image of his own audience' - West of Offa's Dyke, a review of Tony Curtis ed. 'Wales: The Imagined Nation', 1986

Going to Cambridge University gave me some social status among the town's [Abergavenny] elite. Before I had been just 'one of them Labour kids from Pandy', but now, now, I was a young Cambridge socialist. What promotion - I Live Through The War manuscript, 1939

Acha moved her tongue contemptuously. 'You understand so little, you lords. There is nothing for me if I go back across the Wye. Only the same hard life of a slave' - People of the Black Mountains 2: The Eggs of the Eagle, 1990

The colonial process [within the British Isles] has become part of the long settlement which is idealised as Old England or the natural economy: the product of centuries of successive penetration and domination - The Country and the City, 1973

Basically, the poverty and suffering which reached a critical level after 1815 were the consequence of the establishment of a capitalist order in farming - The Country and the City, 1973

In most description and analysis, #culture and society are expressed in an habitual past tense - Marxism and Literature,1977

Poor people and vagrants, the casualties of a changing rural economy, or the hard-pressed or ambitious seeing in London some escape from their sub-ordinate destiny, were the explicit objects of exclusion from the developing city - The Country and the City, 1973

Efficiency must never be reduced to a monetary criterion, or be a simple criterion by gross commodities. Efficiency is the production of a stable economy , an equitable society and a fertile world - Between Country and City, 1984

By the 1960s, #Britain had become a rather weak member in the second rank of capitalist powers, increasingly dominated by United States capital but still dominating the economies of a group of small and far less developed countries - #MayDay Manifesto 1968, 1968

War, famine, work, traffic, politics. To see no ethical content or human agency in such events, or to say that we cannot connect them with general meanings, & especially with permanent and universal meanings, is to admit a strange and particular bankruptcy - Modern Tragedy, 1966

A car drew in to the pavement, a few yards in front of him. Two men got out and stood talking to the driver. He heard the sharp Welsh accents even before he distinguished the words - Second Generation, 1964

Most people spend more time watching various kinds of drama than in preparing and eating food - Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 2nd ed., 1990

LUKE: What we have really to face is how all this happened, how we became strong. MARK: It was not only Koba. In many ways he made us weaker. LUKE: But in other ways stronger - Koba, 1959

A strong residual sense of anarchist as this kind of terrorist (in the language, with terrorism, from C18) has not been forgotten, though it is clearly separate from the mainstream anarchist movement - Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983

'Theory' has an interesting development and range of meanings, and a significant distinction from (later an opposition to) 'practice' - Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983

By emphasizing this long-term aid, and creating its effective conditions, leaders of developing countries, and socialists in the developed countries, can begin to give aid its essential meaning, and take it out of the context of capitalist trade & power - May Day Manifesto, 1968

Evans, however, became a Director of the American-funded Community Politics Trust: a liberal rat-trap, if ever there was one, picking up young radicals just when they needed a settled income - The Volunteers, 1978

[Herbert Spencer] opposed state aid to the poor on the grounds that this would preserve the weaker and less successful members of the race - Social Darwinism, 1973 based on a 1972 lecture at Institute of Contemporary Art

'Widowers' Houses' ('slum-landlordism') need not detain us; it is not [Bernard] Shaw at his best. It is a crude intrigue melodrama, mechanically contrived to allow Lickcheese, the rent-collector, to be explicitly rhetorical about slums - Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973

The landscape of childhood never disappears, but the waking environment is adult: the street, the committee, the long, quiet library, the file of revised manuscript, the books shifting under the arm as you run for the crowded bus - Border Country, 1960

The strategy [for the Left] is all still to be found, but what blocks it is this old model of creating a relatively powerful, united Britain with a 'successful' sovereign econony. That, I think, is what history has ruled out - The Practice of Possibility in The New Statesman, 1987

People, including Richard Hoggart, refer to "working-class speech". There is of course no such thing: the only class speech in Britain is that of the middle and upper classes; the remaining variations are regional - Working Class Culture, Universities & Left Review, 1957

**The great David Harvey drawing on Raymond Williams #keywords

Irish history had broken into revolution, a war of liberation and civil war by the time [Sean] O'Casey began to write for the Abbey Theatre. His first acted play, The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), is a response to this experience of violence - Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973

Where the workers are smashed there's that much less strength in all the others [countries]. In 4 or 5 years there could be a Fascist Europe and we'd be back to the Dark Ages. No parties, no unions, no political freedoms, and people like you Bert in prison camps - Loyalties, 1985