To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Max LernerThe way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
Max LernerThe 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 LernerIn 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 Lerner