Max Lerner Quotes & Sayings

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”

“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.”

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