Max Lerner Quotes About Literature
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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 failing to get there.
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
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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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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.
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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
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A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
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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.
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