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
4th-of-july patriotic ideas
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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.
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.
teenage serious adolescence
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
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.
dream sleep men
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.
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.
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.