Ann Bridge Quote

There is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!

Singing Waters (ed. 2013)

There is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our...

There is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our...

There is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our...

There is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our...