Quote

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Max Lerner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Мінск
Ethics
Interests
Privilege
Morality
Humanity
Vested
Enemy
Confuse
Interest
Identify
Enemies

More quotes by Max Lerner

Image
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.
Max Lerner
Image
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner
Image
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.
Max Lerner
Image
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
Image
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
Max Lerner
Image
We must face what we fear that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.
Max Lerner
Image
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician
Max Lerner
Image
The Russians train they do not dare educate.
Max Lerner
Image
It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
Max Lerner
Image
Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
Max Lerner
Image
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.
Max Lerner
Image
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Max Lerner
Image
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
Max Lerner
Image
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner
Image
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
Image
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max Lerner
Image
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.
Max Lerner
Image
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
Max Lerner
Image
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
Image
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
Max Lerner