Max Eastman: Believer

Max Eastman was American activist. Explore interesting quotes on believer.

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“It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to "capitalism", accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.”

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 45

“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”

The Masses (September 1917)

“The backers of Hitler in Germany made the same mistake about the Nazi party that the workers and soldiers in Petrograd made about the Bolshevik party. Each group believed that this new brutal, rabid, monolithic fighting gang, on achieving power, would promote, as had been promised, its enlightened interests.”

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 110