Top 66 Quotes & Sayings by Max Lerner - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.