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

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

Category:
Equality
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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

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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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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. – A. Whitney Brown

Category:
Humor

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. Theyre all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. – Norman Lear

Category:
Humor

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies. – Connie Nielsen

Category:
Humor

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? – Max Frisch

Category:
Humor

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