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 a man in search of excellence. Max Lerner More Quotes by Max Lerner More Quotes From Max Lerner Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him. Max Lerner humanity humble men In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole. Max Lerner ethos stupid character There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism. Max Lerner spy vanity ambition To reject the word is to reject the human search. Max Lerner purging censoring-books censorship-in-books 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 hate hero america A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride. Max Lerner president literature enemy Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones. Max Lerner becoming bigs war Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart. Max Lerner brain heart men I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. Max Lerner principles simple temptation 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. Max Lerner collective-effort pie sky It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat. Max Lerner triumph defeat success Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used. Max Lerner ethos used science We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. Max Lerner demand political perfection What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones. Max Lerner pills addiction mind Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled? Max Lerner issues government self The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. Max Lerner written survivor lessons The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. Max Lerner bed lying moving 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 military giving war In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world. Max Lerner money hero men 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 ordinary men way
