1. Citations
  2. Auteurs
  3. Max Forrester Eastman

Max Forrester Eastman citations

Max Forrester Eastman était un écrivain socialiste américain qui patronna le mouvement de Renaissance de Harlem et sympathisa avec Léon Trotsky avant de devenir anticommuniste à la fin de sa vie. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. janvier 1883 – 25. mars 1969
Max Forrester Eastman photo
Max Forrester Eastman: 15   citations 0   J'aime

Max Forrester Eastman: Citations en anglais

“A smile is the universal welcome.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Source: The Sense of Humor

“I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 57

“An armed seizure of power by a highly organized minority party, whether in the name of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the Glory of Rome, the Supremacy of the Nordics, or any other slogan that may be invented, and no matter how ingeniously integrated with the masses of the population, will normally lead to the totalitarian state. 'Totalitarian state' is merely the modern name for tyranny.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 18

“Hegelism is like a mental disease—you cannot know what it is until you get it, and then you can't know because you've got it.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution (1926), p.22

“Libertarians used to tell us that ‘the love of freedom is the strongest of political motives,’ but recent events have taught us the extravagance of this opinion. The ‘herd-instinct’ and the yearning for paternal authority are often as strong. Indeed the tendency of men to gang up under a leader and submit to his will is of all political traits the best attested by history. It has been so shockingly exemplified in modem times that only a somnambulist could ignore it in trying to build, or defend, a free society. His first concern should be to make sure that no one gang or group-neither the proletariat, nor the capitalists, nor the landowners, no the bankers, nor the army, nor the church, nor the government itself-shall have exclusive power.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), pp. 37-38

“A false and undeliberated conception of what man is lies at the bottom, I think, of the whole bubble-castle of socialist theory. Although few seem to realize it, Marxism rests on the romantic notion of Rousseau that nature endows men with the qualities necessary to be a free, equal, fraternal, family-like living together, and our sole problem is to fix up the external conditions. All Marx did about this with his dialectical philosophy was to change the tenses in the romance: Nature will endow men with the qualities as soon as the conditions are fixed up.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 29

“Marxists profess to reject religion in favor of science, but they cherish a belief that the external universe is evolving with reliable, if not divine, necessity in exactly the direction in which they want to go.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Marxism: Is It Science? (1940)

“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.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

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

“More goods and fewer people is the slogan I should like to see carried at the head of humanity's march into the future.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 55

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

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

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.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

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

“An honest, bold, loyal, and within its limits extremely highbrow attempt to produce through common ownership a society of the Free and Equal, produced a tyrant and a totalitarian state;…”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

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

“Stalinism is worse than fascism, more ruthless, barbarous, unjust, immoral, anti-democratic, unredeemed by any hope or scruple, ... better described as superfascist.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Source: Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1940), p. 82

“Stalinism, as we have seen, contains all of the evils of Nazism and Fascism, most of them in extremer form.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Source: Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1940), p. 149

“I omit from consideration here the fact that people who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral, but in favor of the status quo.”

Help us translate this quote
Max Eastman

Attributed by internet sources to Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics (1939), but not confirmed.
Source: Enjoyment of Poetry With Anthology for Enjoyment of Poetry (1951), p. 233 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/oV5emKH2uhcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=status%20quo
Source: The quote appears to have been first published in the essay "The Slogan, 'Propaganda Has No Place in Art,' Is The Symptom Of A Decaying Culture" https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/WX3NyDFUC_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=eastman, Stage Magazine (1934).

Auteurs similaires

Richard Bach photo
Richard Bach 8
écrivain américain
Kurt Vonnegut photo
Kurt Vonnegut 29
écrivain américain
John Steinbeck photo
John Steinbeck 18
écrivain américain
William Faulkner photo
William Faulkner 18
écrivain américain
Ray Bradbury photo
Ray Bradbury 20
écrivain américain
Jack London photo
Jack London 12
écrivain américain
Vladimir Nabokov photo
Vladimir Nabokov 39
écrivain
Francis Scott Fitzgerald photo
Francis Scott Fitzgerald 18
écrivain américain
Anaïs Nin photo
Anaïs Nin 16
écrivain américaine
Charles Bukowski photo
Charles Bukowski 19
écrivain américain