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Maxwell Alan "Max" Lerner (December 20, 1902 – June 5, 1992) was a Russian-born American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column. After immigrating from Russia with his parents in 1907, Lerner earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1923. He studied law there but transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for an M.A. in 1925.

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

Astonishment, Hope, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Surprise

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Enemy, Ethics, Humanity, Identify, Privilege

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.

Beings, Ethos, Human, Science, Used

Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

Danger, Friendship, Gratitude, Mean, Teeth

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

America, Ideas, Men, Shudders

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Dry, Men, Rate, Running, Time, Timekeeper

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

4Th Of July, America, Brotherhood, Idea, Patriotic

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Censoring Books, Censorship In Books, Human, Purging, Reject, Search

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

Competition, Corporate, Deadly, Government, Group, Pressure

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Adolescence, Serious, Seventeen, Teenage

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

Brutal, Culture, Live, Power, Sterile

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.

Book, Crime, Men, Purging, Rejection, Truth

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

Becomes, Bitter, Democracy, Fullness, Taste

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

Memories, Memory, Names, Power, Science, Study

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

Decision, Exclude, Mean, Threatening, Unions, Workers

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

Defeat, Easy, Enervated, Success, Triumph

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.

Confident, Humanity, Humble, Man, Men, Simulate

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.

Addiction, Cheap, Instead, Mind, Peace, Pills

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

Ambition, Spies, Spy, Thrills, Time, Vanity

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

Enemy, Hit, Judged, Literature, President, Stride

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