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Milton Mayer

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Also known as Milton Sanford Mayer

American journalist (1908-1986)

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It is catalogued under topics including 1908 births, 1986 deaths and 20th-century American educators.

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Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • On Liberty
  • They Thought They Were Free - Germans 1933-45
  • Robert Maynard Hutchins
  • Man Vs. The State
  • Nature of the Beast

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1977-10-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
180

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Quotes

  • If I believed that force would ever build a better world, I would be a Marxist revolutionary. But I have no more faith in poor men's animalism than in rich men's. And I want no proletarian revolution until the proletariat has demonstrated devotion to reason which the rich, with larger opportunities to cultivate that virtue, have so universally failed to achieve. I favor the underdog against the upperdog, but I favor something better than a dog above both of them.
  • Socialism may be all right when men are fit to be socialists. The way may be hard and slow, but until we take it we shall find that the so-called Socialist state degenerates and Fascism as rapidly as the pacifist with warm hearts to generate into militarists with fevered brows. Marxism, like fascism and capitalism is materialism. The love of material goods above all others is as animal as of love of war. The love of justice above material goods must save us in the end it saved we may be.
  • Justice alone knows liberty, equality, and fraternity, and justice is a human virtue arising from man's human capacity to reason. We cannot make sense out of justice by looking at the moon or taking dope or building battleships. We can make sense out of justice by using our reason to discover that justice, like wisdom, is better than rubies.
  • If the last and the worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and the smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked. If, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next.
  • Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed.
  • The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too.

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date of death
1986-04-20
date of birth
1908-08-24
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Available in 4 languages

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