When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. Max Lerner More Quotes by Max Lerner More Quotes From Max Lerner The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. Max Lerner broken-heart motivational life Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. Max Lerner diversity brother men We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living. Max Lerner time running men I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. Max Lerner pessimist possibility optimist When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. Max Lerner evil integrity two America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. Max Lerner patriotic 4th-of-july ideas To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. Max Lerner literature hurt The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. Max Lerner rejection men book The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness. Max Lerner competition groups government Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted. Max Lerner democracy done past The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. Max Lerner real change birthday What counted was not the facts but the fears. Max Lerner facts 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 struggle men religion In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach. Max Lerner successful practice teacher When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. Max Lerner literature evil believe We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health. Max Lerner restoration cases faces Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. Max Lerner teenage art fall A people's speech is the skin of its culture. Max Lerner skins culture people The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. Max Lerner astonishment surprise kingdoms 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
