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  • 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.

    Simple   Actors   Alive  
    "On Movies".
  • A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

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

    Hero   Demand  
  • 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.

    Mean   Men   Personality  
    Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”
  • Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

    Struggle   May   Way  
    "Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963" by Scott H. Bennett, Syracuse University Press, 2003.
  • 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 (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”
  • Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

  • 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.

    Real   Believe   Justice  
    Dwight Macdonald (1974). “Discriminations: Essays & Afterthoughts”
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