Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. – Lionel Trilling
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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
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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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