You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
Max LernerWhat 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.
Max LernerWe cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max LernerThere are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.
Max Lerner