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
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
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
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
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 is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. — Max Lerner Calendars 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
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart. — Max Lerner Brain Copy Share Image
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones. — Max Lerner Becoming 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
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
“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.” — Max Lerner 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
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all… — Max Lerner Hurt 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
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. — Max Lerner Men 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
