Max Lerner > Quotes

“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.”
― Max Lerner

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
― Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country: A Book of American Symbols

“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”
― Max Lerner

“Every man has two counties--his own and America.”
― Max Lerner, America as a Civilization

“To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work---surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living".”
― Max Lerner, America as a Civilization

“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”
― Max Lerner

“Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.”
― Max Lerner

“We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.”
― Max Lerner

“The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.”
― Max Lerner

“Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.”
― Max Lerner, Actions and Passions Notes on the Multiple Revolution of Our Time

“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.”
― Max Lerner