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 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. – Lionel Trilling

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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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Imagination
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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
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It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and its too bad that we dont have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning teams lawyers. – Carol Burnett

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legal

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. – Robert Byrd

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legal

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. – Lamar S. Smith

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legal

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that theyre legal harder to get. – Rosie ODonnell

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legal

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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter

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O kiss me into faintness sweet and dim! – Alexander Smith, “A Life-Drama”

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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. – Honore de Balzac

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