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
civilization environmental cocoons
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
faces restoration cases
We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.
pay
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
dream politician columnists
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician
lying moving trivia
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.
government competition pressure
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.
stupid character ethos
In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.
believe evil world
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
kingdoms astonishment surprise
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
censorship-in-books censoring-books purging
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
facts
What counted was not the facts but the fears.
discovery civilization fire
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.
power culture brutal
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
congratulations men best-effort
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.