“A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can’t do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.”
— Howard Fast
“In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.”
— Howard Fast
“The revolution goes on; a man does not make the revolution, not a thousand men, not an army and not a party; the revolution comes from the people as they reach toward God, and a little of God is in each person and each will not forget it. This it is the revolution when slaves shake their chains and the revolution when a strong man bends toward a weaker and says, “Here, comrade, is my arm.” The revolution goes on and nothing stops it; but because the people are seeking what is good, not what is wicked or powerful or cruel or rich or venal, but simply what is good–because of that the people flounder and feel along one dark road after another. The people no more all-seeing than their rulers once were; it is in intention that they differ.”
— Howard Fast
“A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.”
— Howard Fast
“Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future–instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing…. The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.”
— Howard Fast
“I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]”
— Howard Fast