Max Lerner

“To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.”

“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.”

“A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.”

“The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.”