Max Lerner Quotes
- Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the…
- A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
- We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The…
- What counted was not the facts but the fears.
- We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.
- Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
- To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
- A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician
- The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has…
- The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental…
- 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…
- When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
- The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
- To reject the word is to reject the human search.
- What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and…
- If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and…
- There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
- It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
- The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
- Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless…