In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and… — Max Lerner 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 for it. — 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 Image
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 Image
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner 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 as its… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — 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 has destroyed… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. — 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 effort involved… — 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 of life,… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
