"We who are liberal and progressive know that……" — Lionel Trilling
"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."
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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state…
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than…
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
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