Quotes of Max Lerner - somelinesforyou

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

- 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

“ 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. ”

- Max Lerner

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

- 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

“ 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

“ 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 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

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Max Lerner

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

- 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

“ Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ”

- Max Lerner

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

- Max Lerner

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

- Max Lerner

“ Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ”

- Max Lerner

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

- Max Lerner

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- 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… ”

- Max Lerner

“ Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ”

- 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… ”

- Max Lerner

“ 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. ”

- 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 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

“ 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. ”

- Max Lerner
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