Max Lerner Quotes

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

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

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. - Max Lerner

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

To reject the word is to reject the human search. - Max Lerner

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. - Max Lerner

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

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

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. - Max Lerner

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