“To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work---surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of… — 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
