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Quote by Lionel Trilling
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary wea

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

Other quotes by Lionel Trilling

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

Category:
Imagination
Author
Lionel Trilling
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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

Category:
Paradise, Utopia
Author
Lionel Trilling
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors. – Bill Forsyth

Category:
Humor

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. – Jacob August Riis

Category:
Humor

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Id be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. – Lenny Bruce

Category:
Humor

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. – Kyle Chandler

Category:
Humor

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Category:
Conformity

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. – Bram Stoker

Category:
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Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And thats a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. – Rob Reiner

Category:
Change