Max Eastman Quotes

American writer (1883-1969)

Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a magazine of politics and the arts.

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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.

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.

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.

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

What happened here is the most significant, as it is the most devastating human thing that has happened in America since Sherman marched to the sea.