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Max Lerner quotes: Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
Max Lerner quotes: Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart. Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
Max Lerner quotes: In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner quotes: A people's speech is the skin of its culture. A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
Max Lerner quotes: The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner quotes: 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. 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.
Max Lerner quotes: 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. 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.
Max Lerner quotes: It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man. It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
Max Lerner quotes: A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride. A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
Max Lerner quotes: Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner quotes: The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner quotes: A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
Max Lerner quotes: A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician. A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
Max Lerner quotes: The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner quotes: We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
Max Lerner quotes: It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat. It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
Max Lerner quotes: To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Max Lerner quotes: Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones. Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
Max Lerner quotes: Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men. Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
Max Lerner quotes: When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
Max Lerner quotes: The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it. The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
Max Lerner quotes: American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
Max Lerner quotes: America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Max Lerner quotes: Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance. Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.
Max Lerner quotes: The Russians train; they do not dare educate. The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
Max Lerner quotes: There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
Max Lerner quotes: When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner quotes: When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil. When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.
Max Lerner quotes: What counted was not the facts but the fears. What counted was not the facts but the fears.
Max Lerner quotes: Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent. Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
Max Lerner quotes: We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max Lerner quotes: America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
Max Lerner quotes: You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
Max Lerner quotes: I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner quotes: 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. 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.
Max Lerner quotes: When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Max Lerner quotes: Every man has two countieshis own and America. Every man has two counties
his own and America.
Max Lerner quotes: Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
Max Lerner quotes: The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied. The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
Max Lerner quotes: I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
Max Lerner quotes: The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Max Lerner quotes: Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted. Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
Max Lerner quotes: We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health. We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.

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