Max Lerner Quotes - Page 3

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• To reject the word is to reject the human search.

  Max Lerner

  Censorship In Books, Censoring Books, Purging

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• 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.

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  Lying, Moving, Bed

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

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  Men, Ordinary, Way

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

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• What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

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  Addiction, Mind, Pills

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

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  Cynical, Calendars, Crime

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• The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

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  Democracy, Taste, Bitter

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• There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

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  Dream, Sleep, Men

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• American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

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  Knights, American Capitalism, Robber Baron

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• Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

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  Issues, Government, Self

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• We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

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  Power, Culture, Brutal

  Max Lerner (1939). “It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy”, p.223, Transaction Publishers

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• Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

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  War, Becoming, Bigs

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• The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

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  Collective Effort, Sky, Pie

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• It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

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  Success, Triumph, Defeat

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• Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

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  Science, Ethos, Used

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• Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.

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  Humble, Men, Humanity

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