Lionel Trilling

 “It is hard to believe that the declaration of antifascism is nowadays any more a mark of sufficient grace in a writer than a declaration against disease would be in a physician or a declaration against accidents would be in a locomotive engineer. The admirable intention in itself is not enough and criticism begins and does not end when the intention is declared.”
― Lionel Trilling, The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling