The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.
Lionel TrillingBeing a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Lionel TrillingIt is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Lionel Trilling