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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
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A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
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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.
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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.
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American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
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We must face what we fear that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.
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What counted was not the facts but the fears.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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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.
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Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
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Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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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.
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Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
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There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
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