We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of…

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

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

— Max Lerner

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

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

— Max Lerner

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

— Max Lerner

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

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

— Max Lerner

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

— Max Lerner

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

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

— Max Lerner

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

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

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

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

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

— Max Lerner