Quotes by Trilling, Lionel

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, >>

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state >>

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched a >>

Quotations about Middle Class

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this >>

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst >>

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people >>

A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.

Trilling, Lionel