The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart. — Max Lerner Brain Copy Share Image
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent. — Max Lerner Insistent Copy Share Image
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. — Max Lerner Brothers 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
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner Certainty 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
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
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — Max Lerner Astonishment Copy Share Image
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. — Max Lerner 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
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 Copy Share Image
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking… — Max Lerner Brain 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.” — Max Lerner Evil 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 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 Copy Share Image
