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Quotes by Max Lerner

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
– Max Lerner
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
– Max Lerner
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
– Max Lerner
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
– Max Lerner
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.
– Max Lerner
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
– Max Lerner
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.
– Max Lerner
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
– Max Lerner
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
– Max Lerner
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
– Max Lerner
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.
– Max Lerner
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
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
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
– Max Lerner
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
– Max Lerner
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
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
– Max Lerner