The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries… — Max Lerner Excellence Copy Share Image
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all… — Max Lerner Core strength Copy Share Image
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing… — Max Lerner Anti war Copy Share Image
“Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.” — Max Lerner America 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
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
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the… — Max Lerner Civilization Copy Share Image
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner Certainty 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner Civilization 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 the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give… — Max Lerner Armed forces 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
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — Max Lerner Astonishment 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
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. — Max Lerner Hurt 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
