Author: 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

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

- Max Lerner

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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