Top 8 Quotes by Dwight Macdonald

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

Dwight Macdonald

Mean, Able, Conversation

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

Dwight Macdonald

People, Foundation, Want

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

Dwight Macdonald

Hero, Demand

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

War, Character, Rejection

Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”

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

Struggle, May, Way

"Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963" by Scott H. Bennett, Syracuse University Press, 2003.

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

Simple, Actors, Alive

"On Movies".

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

Mean, Men, Personality

Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”