Max Lerner

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

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.

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

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

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.