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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
Power
Culture
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Max Lerner
Hurt
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner
Strength
Growing up
Hurt
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
Peace
Brotherhood
End
May
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner
Greatness
Excellence
Man
Open
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
History
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
Evil
World