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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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