16 Quotations by Max Lerner
- 1. A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
- 2. Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand ...
- 3. Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
- 4. God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary ...
- 5. Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, ra ...
- 6. I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
- 7. In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If ...
- 8. Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call ci ...
- 9. The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut ...
- 10. The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
- 11. The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History ...
- 12. The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places whi ...
- 13. We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us cease ...
- 14. We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we c ...
- 15. When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
- 16. You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end ...
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