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
knights american-capitalism robber-baron
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
government self issues
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?
hate hero america
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.
ignorance men civilization
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
ambition vanity spy
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.
simple temptation principles
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
collective-effort sky pie
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
perfection political demand
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
rights mind sap
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
democracy taste bitter
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
men world destruction
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
struggle men religion
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
dare educate train
The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
humble men humanity
Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.