Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human,… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. — Max Lerner Copy Share
In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then… — Max Lerner Copy Share
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner Copy Share
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its… — Max Lerner Copy Share
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. — Max Lerner Copy Share
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — Max Lerner Copy Share
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed… — Max Lerner Copy Share
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. — Max Lerner Copy Share
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved… — Max Lerner Copy Share
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life,… — Max Lerner Copy Share
Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more… — Max Lerner Copy Share
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. — Max Lerner Copy Share
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. — Max Lerner Copy Share
