Frases de Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook [1]​ fue un filósofo estadounidense.[2]​[3]​

Destacado por sus posiciones políticas anticomunistas, defendidas ya desde la década de la Gran Depresión y más tarde durante la Guerra Fría,[1]​ fue autor de obras como The Metaphysics of Pragmatism ,[4]​ Toward the Understanding of Karl Marx ,[1]​ From Hegel to Marx ,[1]​ John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait ,[5]​ The Hero in History o Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life ,[1]​ entre otras. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. diciembre 1902 – 12. julio 1989
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Sidney Hook: Frases en inglés

“I turned to Brecht and asked him why, if he felt the way he did about Jerome and the other American Communists, he kept on collaborating with them, particularly in view of their apparent approval or indifference to what was happening in the Soviet Union. […] Brecht shrugged his shoulders and kept on making invidious remarks about the American Communist Party and asserted that only the Soviet Union and its Communist Party mattered. […] But I argued… it was the Kremlin and above all Stalin himself who were responsible for the arrest and imprisonment of the opposition and their dependents. It was at this point that he said in words I have never forgotten, 'As for them, the more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.' I was so taken aback that I thought I had misheard him. 'What are you saying?' I asked. He calmly repeated himself, 'The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.' […] I was stunned by his words. 'Why? Why?' I exclaimed. All he did was smile at me in a nervous sort of way. I waited, but he said nothing after I repeated my question. I got up, went into the next room, and fetched his hat and coat. When I returned, he was still sitting in his chair, holding a drink in his hand. When he saw me with his hat and coat, he looked surprised. He put his glass down, rose, and with a sickly smile took his hat and coat and left. Neither of us said a word. I never saw him again.”

Out of Step (1985)

“To silence criticism is to silence freedom.”

New York Times Magazine (30 September 1951)

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