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
teenage serious adolescence
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
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.
dare educate train
The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
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.
humble men humanity
Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.
rights mind sap
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
gratitude mean flags
Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
discovery civilization fire
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
faces restoration cases
We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.
kingdoms astonishment surprise
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
censorship-in-books censoring-books purging
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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.