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
running time men
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
brother men diversity
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
possibility pessimist optimist
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
4th-of-july patriotic ideas
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
life motivational broken-heart
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
power culture brutal
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
believe evil world
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
lying moving trivia
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
men ideas america
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.