"Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding."

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Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.286, New York Review of Books

Lionel Trilling

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