Max Lerner Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

  Fire, Glowing, Discovery

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

• To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

  Max Lerner

  Hurt, Literature

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

• 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.

  Max Lerner

  Lying, Moving, Bed

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

• 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

  Congratulations, Men, Best Effort

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

• 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.

  Max Lerner

  Ideas, America, Competition

• A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

  Max Lerner

  Suicide, Mean, Technology

• 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

  Believe, Evil, Literature

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

  Max Lerner

  Enemy, President, Literature

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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