Words matter. These are the best Stuart Hall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You must have the modesty of saying, this is a bloody good idea but I probably won’t believe it in five years’ time.
What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I could make a success there, I could even be perhaps accepted into it, but I would never feel it was my place. It’s the summit of something else. It’s distilled Englishness.
The NHS is one of the most humanitarian acts that has ever been undertaken in peace time.
I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing before, but then it was something. So I became one.
I tend to think some things are off-limits. Not in the sense that you should not be able to say them, but you need some care about how and when you go into them. If you wanted to make a joke about concentration camps you should think twice. At least twice.
The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.
A lot of crap goes on in media studies, like in almost everything.
Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English political virtues – rule of law, free speech, the franchise.
Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.
I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did.
The very notion of Great Britain’s ‘greatness’ is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood and rotted English teeth.
There’s no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can’t work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking at their socio-economic position.
If I have to read another cultural studies analysis of ‘The Sopranos,’ I give up. There’s an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as cultural studies.
While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system.
Politicians always think they know what people feel. It’s a fallacy, because there is no such thing as ‘the people.’ It is a discursive device for summoning the people that you want. You’re constructing the people, you’re not reflecting the people.
