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