We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel TrillingThe 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 TrillingThere is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel TrillingOur culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Lionel Trilling