3 Lionel Trilling Quotes on Politics

Lionel Trilling quotes on politics

1. At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.

6. 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.

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