Carl Oglesby Quotes

“In a strong sense, the Old Right and the New Left are morally and politically coordinate.”

Carl Oglesby

Containment and Change (1967)

“Culture, ... that standard shield of class, is allowed to surface only in order to become more evidence of ... vanity.”

Carl Oglesby

"The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction" (1972)

“The conscience exists, standing before us now asking not to be created or perfected but to be chosen and defended, in need of champions, not exiles. Any fiction which refuses that request is henceforth a collaborationist fiction.”

Carl Oglesby

"The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction" (1972)

“When the house is burning down around the poet's head, on grounds of what if any dispensation can the poet continue the poem?”

Carl Oglesby

"The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction" (1972)