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> [The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/the-crime-of-book-purging-is-that-it-involves-a-rejection-of-the-word/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

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## More by Max Lerner

> [You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/you-may-call-for-peace-as-loudly-as-you-wish-but-where-there-is-no/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

> [The Russians train; they do not dare educate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/the-russians-train-they-do-not-dare-educate/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/in-the-end-as-any-successful-teacher-will-tell-you-you-can-only-teach/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

> [We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/we-demand-of-our-political-life-greater-certainty-and-greater/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

> [A people's speech is the skin of its culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/a-people-s-speech-is-the-skin-of-its-culture/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/there-is-a-hate-layer-of-opinion-and-emotion-in-america-there-will-be/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

> [The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/the-taste-of-democracy-becomes-a-bitter-taste-when-the-fullness-of/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

> [The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/the-politics-of-surprise-leads-through-the-gates-of-astonishment-into/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/it-is-not-science-that-has-destroyed-the-world-despite-all-the-gloomy/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

> [American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/american-capitalism-has-been-both-overpraised-and-overindicted-it-is/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/despite-the-success-cult-men-are-most-deeply-moved-not-by-the/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/god-is-what-man-finds-that-is-divine-in-himself-it-is-the-best-way/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/man-must-be-at-once-more-humble-and-more-confident-more-humble-in-the/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/when-evil-acts-in-the-world-it-always-manages-to-find-instruments-who/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

> [When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lerner/when-you-choose-the-lesser-of-two-evils-always-remember-that-it-is/)

[Max Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lerner/)

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