Max Lerner Quotes

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary ...

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achi...

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end...

Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the gran...

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand...

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace o...

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you ...