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
hurt
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
teacher successful practice
In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.
book men rejection
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.
two evil ethics
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
running time men
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
brother men diversity
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
possibility pessimist optimist
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
4th-of-july patriotic ideas
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
life motivational broken-heart
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.