America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. — Max Lerner Action Copy Share Image
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. — Max Lerner American capitalism Copy Share Image
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner Certainty Copy Share Image
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the… — Max Lerner Civilization Copy Share Image
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.” — Max Lerner America 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
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of… — Max Lerner Free market 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 Brain 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 Belief Copy Share Image
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy… — Max Lerner Addiction Copy Share Image
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges… — Max Lerner Celebrity Copy Share Image
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but… — Max Lerner Absolute truth Copy Share Image
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed… — Max Lerner America Copy Share Image
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. — Max Lerner Enemy Copy Share Image
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries… — Max Lerner Excellence Copy Share Image
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing… — Max Lerner Anti war Copy Share Image
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all… — Max Lerner Core strength Copy Share Image
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner History Copy Share Image
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die… — Max Lerner Brutal Copy Share Image
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician — Max Lerner Dream 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
In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice… — Max Lerner Diversity Copy Share Image
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for… — Max Lerner Democracy Copy Share Image
If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions… — Max Lerner Big corporations Copy Share Image
