In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
Max LernerEvery step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
Max LernerPrinciples-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
Max LernerI have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
Max Lerner