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

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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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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Other Quotes from
legal
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Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm. – James Otis

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legal

I wouldnt pretend to tell you we dont pay our lawyers well. – Jay Alan Sekulow

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legal

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, its one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because youre gay. – Gus Van Sant

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legal

I do not believe abortion should be legal. – Herman Cain

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legal

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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. – Samuel Smiles

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Mr Speaker, I said the honourable Member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable Member may place the punctuation where he pleases. – Attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), responding to a rebuk

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Grammar

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children. – Phil Lesh

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Education

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

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