Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate. — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
“It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries.” — Perry Anderson Copy Share
“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.” — Perry Anderson Copy Share
Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument… — Perry Anderson Copy Share
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or… — Perry Anderson Copy Share
