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.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. - Max Lerner
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
- 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
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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… - 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…
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. - Max Lerner
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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
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.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. - Max Lerner
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. - Max Lerner
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
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
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health. - Max Lerner
We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.
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