Quote

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

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
Way
National
Life
Goes
Drying
Principles
Pacifism
Rights
Sap
Free
Flowing
Another
Sovereignty
States
Direction
Mind
Market

More quotes by Max Lerner

Image
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.
Max Lerner
Image
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Max Lerner
Image
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
Image
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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
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.
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
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
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
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
Max Lerner
Image
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
Max Lerner
Image
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
Max Lerner
Image
The Russians train they do not dare educate.
Max Lerner
Image
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.
Max Lerner
Image
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.
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
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
Max Lerner
Image
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.
Max Lerner