(25 quotes found)
“You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.”
Max Lerner
“Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.”
“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.”
“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”
“A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.”
“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.”
“Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.”
“We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.”
“A world technology means either a world government or world suicide”