List of Max Lerner Quotes

What Is Dangerous About Tranquillizers Is That Whatever Peace Of Mind They Bring Is A Packaged Peace Of Mind. Where You Buy A Pill And Buy Peace Of Mind With It, You Get Conditioned To Cheap Solutions Instead Of Deep Ones.

God Is What Man Finds That Is Divine In Himself. It Is The Best Way Man Can Behave In The Ordinary Occasions Of Life, And The Farthest Point To Which Man Can Stretch Himself.

Meiklejohn's Position Is That Free Speech In A Democracy Is Not An Absolute Flowing From The Boundless Source Of Some Presumed 'natural Right.' It Is A Practical Necessity Of 'self-government By Universal Suffrage,' For If The Citizens Are Not Permitted To Argue Out The Issues Of Government, How Can They Be What They Must Be In A Democracy - The Rulers As Well As The Ruled?

Every Step By Which Men Add To Their Knowledge And Skills Is A Step Also By Which They Can Control Other Men.

There Are Almost No Limits To The Discoveries Of How The Human Brain Operates In Illness And Health, In Sleep And Waking And Dreaming, In Calm And Under Tension. The Question Is How Far Man Can Put These Discoveries To Use Without Using Them Not For Cure But For Power.

Small Wars Are Always Teetering On The Brink Of Becoming Big Ones.

The Taste Of Democracy Becomes A Bitter Taste When The Fullness Of Democracy Is Denied.

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.

There Is No Crime In The Cynical American Calendar More Humiliating Than To Be A Sucker.

If You Mean By Capitalism The God-given Right Of A Few Big Corporations To Make All The Decisions That Will Affect Millions Of Workers And Consumers And To Exclude Everyone Else From Discussing And Examining Those Decisions, Then The Unions Are Threatening Capitalism.

To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.

The Politics Of Surprise Leads Through The Gates Of Astonishment Into The Kingdom Of Hope.