Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Dwight Macdonald

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Dwight Macdonald was an American writer, editor, film critic, social critic, literary critic, philosopher, and activist. Macdonald was a member of the New York Intellectuals and editor of their leftist magazine Partisan Review for six years. He also contributed to other New York publications including Time, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Politics, a journal which he founded in 1944.

American - Writer | March 24, 1906 - December 19, 1982

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By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.

Dwight Macdonald

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

Dwight Macdonald

Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile.

Dwight Macdonald

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

Dwight Macdonald

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

Dwight Macdonald

A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

Dwight Macdonald

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it.

Dwight Macdonald

One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

Dwight Macdonald

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Dwight Macdonald

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