Max Lerner
Max Lerner
Maxwell "Max" Alan Lernerwas an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 December 1902
CountryUnited States of America
men ideas america
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
suicide mean technology
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
brotherhood wish may
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
war way energy
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
art teenage fall
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.
past democracy done
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
people skins speech
A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
addiction mind pills
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
mean decision unions
If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.
cynical calendars crime
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
heart men brain
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
war becoming bigs
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
enemy president stride
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
survivor lessons written
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.