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

- 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 resistanc…

- 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 …

- Dwight Macdonald

By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power o…

- Dwight Macdonald

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

- Dwight Macdonald

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

- 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

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better …

- Dwight Macdonald