More From 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."
- "We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."
- "Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
More In Intelligence
- "I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph."― Margaret Thatcher
- "The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."― Augustus Hare
- "I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."― Michael Caine