A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.Max Lerner
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max Lerner
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 Lerner
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
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.
Max Lerner
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