Max Lerner Quotes
- Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while…
- We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
- A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command…
- The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
- Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better…
- It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
- The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the…
- I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
- Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
- Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
- A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
- The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
- The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
- In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
- The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of…
- When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
- We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
- The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness…
- America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.