A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. – Max Lerner
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there – or failing to get there. – 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
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. – Max Lerner
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule. – Michael Mandelbaum