Quotes By Max Lerner
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
Max Lerner
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
Max Lerner
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Max Lerner
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max Lerner
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
Max Lerner
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Max Lerner
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
Max Lerner
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
Max Lerner
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
Max Lerner
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Max Lerner