Max Lerner
Max Lerner
Maxwell "Max" Alan Lernerwas an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 December 1902
CountryUnited States of America
knowledge men skills
Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
collective-effort sky pie
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
success triumph defeat
It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
science ethos used
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.
dare educate train
The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
struggle men religion
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
perfection political demand
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
heart men brain
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
enemy president stride
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
survivor lessons written
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
government self issues
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?
hate hero america
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.
ambition vanity spy
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.
ignorance men civilization
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.