Author: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Max Lerner

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