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
real sadness littles
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
travel moving greatness
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.
ideas america competition
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.
teenage serious adolescence
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
humanity enemy privilege
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
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.
money hero men
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
memories names long
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.
military war giving
It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
men way ordinary
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
hurt
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
teacher successful practice
In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.
book men rejection
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.
two evil ethics
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.