80 Quotes by Max Lerner

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.

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.

To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work---surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living".

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

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

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

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