Nat Hentoff Quotes About Arthur

Quotes about: Arthur

• I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

  Nat Hentoff

  Lectures, Arthur, Mets

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

  Nat Hentoff

  War, Thinking, Russia

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• [Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Teaching, Mean

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that to get to the point where the Proletariat would triumph, anything that was necessary to be done should be done; the means didn't count.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Mean, Russia

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who ordinarily I respected a lot; Philip Berrigan; the guy who teaches at Princeton still - I can't remember his name. And they were saying - well, they were saying, really, what Arthur Koestler had people saying on "Darkness at Noon." The means were unfortunate and, sadly, someone died, but the end is what is important and this was a great symbolic - something or other - sign against the war in Vietnam.

  Nat Hentoff

  War, Mean, Names

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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