The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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 LernerAmerica shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
Max LernerIn the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.
Max Lerner