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Max Lerner

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When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.


— Max Lerner


#inspirational

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


— Max Lerner


#beasts #brothers #die #either #learn

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.


— Max Lerner


#government #means #suicide #technology #world

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.


— Max Lerner


#change #fifty #little #much #real

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.


— Max Lerner


#being #call #columnist #dream #politician

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


— Max Lerner


#his #hit #judged #makes #president

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.


— Max Lerner


#bed #before #best #between #distinguish

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.


— Max Lerner


#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves

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.


— Max Lerner


#civilization #discovery #fire #greatest #human

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.


— Max Lerner


#deeply #despite #effort #failing #get






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Lerner was also a close friend of film star Elizabeth Taylor during her marriage to Eddie FiMax Lernerr He is referenced in the lyrics to Phil Ochs' song "Love Me I'm a Liberal": "You know I've memorized Lerner and Golden. in “America as a Civilization” which was described as a prodigious and extremely ambitious effort of synthesis ranging over the country’s social history natural setting literary and pop culture economics and politics as well as its national character and style all in an effort to define what was unique about the country and to analyze the factors that accounted for its development. America is protected from Rome’s exhaustion by a central virtue; access it proves to elite structure but only after social battles American dynamism was explored often in Lerner’s text as well as American intellectual history.

Over the sweep of his life he managed an affair with Elizabeth Taylor who called him her little professor and more flings than able to chronicle. in 1925. In his later years however he was seen as something of a conservative due to expressing support for the Reagan administration.

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