Quote by Lionel Trilling
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which th

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. – Lionel Trilling

Other quotes by 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. – Lionel Trilling

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Equality
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Obscurity
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

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Humor
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Other Quotes from
legal
category

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system – we will have something without heart. – Lee Greenwood

Category:
legal

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. – George Sutherland

Category:
legal

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. – Zach Wamp

Category:
legal

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. – P. J. ORourke

Category:
legal

Random Quotes

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. – Alan Cohen

Category:
Truth

To do a dull thing with style-now thats what I call art. – Charles Bukowski

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Art

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Integrity

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Business