Max Lerner Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Max Lerner quotes and sayings page 2 (journalist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 23 we have.

“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.”

“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.”

“Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.”

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

“The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.”

“When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.”

“A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.”

“A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.”

“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.”