About Max Lerner: Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Every man has two counties--his own and America.
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
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.
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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.
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.
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.
What counted was not the facts but the fears.
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.
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.
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
