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Famous Max Lerner Quotes
“America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.”
“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”
“A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.”
“Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.”
“When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.”
“A people's speech is the skin of its culture.”
“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”
“We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.”
“Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.”
“To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.”
“The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.”
“To reject the word is to reject the human search.”
“There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.”