“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.” — Max Lerner Evil 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
We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health. — Max Lerner Cases Copy Share Image
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. — Max Lerner Government Copy Share Image
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. — Max Lerner Bitter Copy Share Image
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die… — Max Lerner Brutal Copy Share Image
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician — Max Lerner Dream Copy Share Image
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing… — Max Lerner Achieve Copy Share Image
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner History Copy Share Image
In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice… — Max Lerner Diversity Copy Share Image
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for… — Max Lerner Democracy Copy Share Image
Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men. — Max Lerner Add Copy Share Image
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions… — Max Lerner Behave Copy Share Image
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses… — Max Lerner Bed Copy Share Image
If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions… — Max Lerner Big corporations Copy Share Image
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but… — Max Lerner Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges… — Max Lerner Celebrity Copy Share Image
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy… — Max Lerner Addiction Copy Share Image
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human,… — Max Lerner Belief Copy Share Image
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of… — Max Lerner Free market Copy Share Image
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make… — Max Lerner Able 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
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
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
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. — Max Lerner Brothers 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
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
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
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but… — Max Lerner Believe Copy Share Image
