A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
- Max Lerner Quote

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
- Max Lerner Quote

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 Quote

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
- Max Lerner Quote

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 Quote

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
- Max Lerner Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
- Max Lerner Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
- Max Lerner Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
- Max Lerner Quote

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
- Max Lerner Quote