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
Max Lerner quotes about
art teenage fall
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 that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
past democracy done
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
people skins speech
A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
addiction mind pills
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
mean decision unions
If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.
cynical calendars crime
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
heart men brain
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
war becoming bigs
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
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.
knights american-capitalism robber-baron
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
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.
ignorance men civilization
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.