Lionel Trilling Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 4, 1905 - November 5, 1975

Topics

HeartBelieveLivingAuthoritarian

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Robert Staughton Lynd

KnowledgePowerManFactsBother

I have seen some crazy people do some crazy things on my variety show. I have to stop and ask them a lot of the time, just how they figured out that they could do the things that they do, some of it is just plain freaky.

Steve Harvey

TimePeopleCrazyStopCrazy People

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

Stephen Covey

HistorySocietyProblemsPrinciples

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

Simon Mawer

LifeGoodAgeYourselfTrainingYou

I was with top CEOs in 2009, and they were clearly shaken. Top leaders of Wall Street and elsewhere, shaken. The ones at the top did get by because if they are seeing a decline somewhere, there is also growth elsewhere, like in emerging economies.

Shiv Nadar

GrowthSeeingWallStreetTopGet

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

Mary Steenburgen

TimeMoneyImportantSaySeriously

Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear 'Love' by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me to tears.

Lou Barlow

LoveMusicMomentMeTearsWill

Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was definitely fixated on his body of work.

Jon Favreau

WorkHeroYouBodyKnowYoung

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

Brandon Webb

WarYouRulesFlexibleAfghanistan

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

Wim Wenders

EyesGreatThingsFilmIdeaChanged

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

William Henry Ashley

SnowDayWeatherWindsHighRemain

I'm just physically stupid.

Peter Capaldi

StupidJustPhysically

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