“There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.” Quote by Max Lerner
“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.” MenWorldDestructionDespiteDestroyedProphetGloomyForeboding Author:Max Lerner
“The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.” DemocracyTasteBitterDeniedFullnessBitter Taste Author:Max Lerner
“Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.” MeanGivenForgetDangerGratitudeRelationTeethFlagsInternational RelationsFlag Waving Author:Max Lerner
“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.” WayMindStatesPrinciplesRightsSovereigntyFree MarketSapPacifismNational SovereigntyStates Rights Author:Max Lerner
“We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.” PoliticalGreaterPoliticianDemandPerfectionCertaintyPersonal LifePolitical Life Author:Max Lerner
“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.” MenHumansReligionBeliefLostCommonStruggleConvictionCommandRealmsSuperhumanInterconnectionHuman WillCommon Struggle Author:Max Lerner
“The Russians train; they do not dare educate.” TrainDareEducate Book:The Unfinished Country Source: The Unfinished Country
“Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.” HumansScienceUsedHuman BeingsHumanistEthos Author:Max Lerner
“It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.” SuccessEasyDefeatTriumph Author:Max Lerner
“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.” PeopleFactsAbleLostEffortMillionsSkyEconomicFortuneSocialismCollectivesPieCollective Effort Author:Max Lerner