Men have always found it easy to be governed. What is hard is for them to govern themselves. <br class="br">Fonte: "It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy"; Por Max Lerner; Publicado por The Viking Press, 1943; Original da Universidade de Michigan; Digitalizado pela 11 jul. 2006; 260 páginas; [ books.boogle http://books.google.com/books?id=6HIBAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1, página 88
Max Lerner: 10 citações2 Curtidas
Max Lerner Frases famosas
“Quando você escolher o menor de dois males, recorde que ele ainda é um mal.”
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." <br class="br">Fonte: "Actions and Passions: Notes on the Multiple Revolution of Our Time"; Por Max Lerner; Publicado por Simon and Schuster, 1949; Original da Universidade de Michigan; Digitalizado pela 27 out. 2006; 367 páginas books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=RcQcAAAAMAAJ&, página 12
“Eu tenho um princípio simples para a condução da vida - Nunca resista a uma tentação adequada.”
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never resist an adequate temptation <br class="br">Fonte: "The Unfinished Country: A Book of American Symbols"; Por Max Lerner; Publicado por Simon and Schuster, 1959; Original da Universidade de Michigan; Digitalizado pela 23 out. 2006; 733 páginas; books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=ogMcAAAAMAAJ&, página 45
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable <br class="br">Fonte: "The Unfinished Country: A Book of American Symbols"; Por Max Lerner; Publicado por Simon and Schuster, 1959; Original da Universidade de Michigan; Digitalizado pela 23 out. 2006; 733 páginas; books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=ogMcAAAAMAAJ&, página 517
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. <br class="br">Fonte: "The Unfinished Country: A Book of American Symbols"; Por Max Lerner; Publicado por Simon and Schuster, 1959; Original da Universidade de Michigan; Digitalizado pela 23 out. 2006; 733 páginas books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=ogMcAAAAMAAJ&, página 122
Max Lerner: Frases em inglês
It Is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy http://books.google.com/books?id=szVGoBq-dkEC&q=%22actually+The+so-called+lessons+of+history+are+for+the+most+part+the+rationalizations+of+the+victors+history+is+written+by+the+survivors%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage (1939)
Quoted in Max Lerner, Writer, 89, Is Dead; Humanist on Political Barricades By Richard Severo, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/06/arts/max-lerner-writer-89-is-dead-humanist-on-political-barricades.html (6 June 1992)
Lerner's summary of his life for "Who's Who in America," quoted in Max Lerner, Writer, 89, Is Dead; Humanist on Political Barricades By Richard Severo, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/06/arts/max-lerner-writer-89-is-dead-humanist-on-political-barricades.html (6 June 1992)
Forward to The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson (1980)