Max Lerner Quotes

American - Journalist December 20, 1902 - June 5, 1992

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

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

Max Lerner

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

Max Lerner

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

Max Lerner

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

Max Lerner

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

Max Lerner

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

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Max Lerner

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

Max Lerner