A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride. — Max Lerner Enemies Copy Share Image
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones. — Max Lerner Becoming Copy Share Image
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. — Max Lerner Change Copy Share Image
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. — Max Lerner Evil Copy Share Image
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. — Max Lerner American capitalism Copy Share Image
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. — Max Lerner Action Copy Share Image
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. — Max Lerner Adequate Copy Share Image
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. — Max Lerner 4th of july Copy Share Image
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner Aliens 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… — Max Lerner Cult 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… — Max Lerner Despite Copy Share Image
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. — Max Lerner Hurt Copy Share Image
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a… — Max Lerner Adventure Copy Share Image
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand… — Max Lerner Admission Copy Share Image
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It… — Max Lerner Ethos Copy Share Image
Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can… — Max Lerner Achieve Copy Share Image
Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a… — Max Lerner Danger Copy Share Image
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What… — Max Lerner Existence Copy Share Image
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention… — Max Lerner Attention Copy Share Image
In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the… — Max Lerner America Copy Share Image
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of… — Max Lerner Big business Copy Share Image
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural… — Max Lerner Absolutes Copy Share Image
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the… — Max Lerner Chronology Copy Share Image
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. — Max Lerner Bitter Copy Share Image
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent. — Max Lerner Insistent Copy Share Image
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart. — Max Lerner Brain Copy Share Image
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. — Max Lerner Brothers Copy Share Image
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. — Max Lerner Government Copy Share Image
We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health. — Max Lerner Cases Copy Share Image
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. — Max Lerner Calendars Copy Share Image
“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.” — Max Lerner Evil 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… — Max Lerner Brotherhood Copy Share Image
