"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that……" — Lionel Trilling
"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."
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36 Quotes by Lionel Trilling
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas…
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
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If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the…
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it…
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This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...
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And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or…
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Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the…
— Ammon Hennacy
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In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
— Dan Graham
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I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the…
— George Orwell
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Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw…
— Mitchell Baker
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My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke…
— Steven Pinker
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like…
— B.F. Skinner
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For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest.…
— Christian Lous Lange
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