In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among …

- Robert Warshow

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience…

- Robert Warshow

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readi…

- Robert Warshow

Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making …

- Robert Warshow

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

- Robert Warshow

The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it…

- Robert Warshow