Joshua Loth Liebman

“Many people are miserable because they think that occasional destructive feelings necessarily make them terrible persons. But just as Aristotle maintained, “One…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“How easily we accept the fact that this is a varied world, with many races, cultures, and mores. In America we rejoice…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“Most of us would like to see our enemies defeated and punished, and it is an ironic (and gruesome) human truth that…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.”

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations, but also in the…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“There has been among us, particularly in America, an adolescent competitiveness—a feeling that life is a race in which the victory of…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“Religion must now recognize that our deep antisocial impulses when denied and repressed do not disappear miraculously from reality; the more we…

— Joshua Loth Liebman