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Max Lerner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 20
Died: 1992
Died: June 5
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Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
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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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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.
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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