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23 quotes by Max Lerner

Richard Severo, Max Lerner, Writer, 89, Is Dead; Humanist on Political Barricades, The New York Times, June 6, 1992 A film clip "The Open Mind - An American Original . . . Revisited (1988)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive
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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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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only... →

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

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Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

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The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

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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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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... →

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When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

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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... →

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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

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A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

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