Max Lerner

"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."

"Marilyn Ferguson is the best reporter today on the farther reaches of investigation into the life and human sciences. She represents a new kind of investigative journalist—not a sleuth after the corru…"

"I have believed in love and work, and their linkage. I have believed that we are neither angels nor devils, but humans, with clusters of potentials in both directions. I am neither an optimist nor pes…"

"I have for some time been impatient with the prevailing sense of pessimism and despair, especially among the intellectual and professional groups of the "New Class." I am not blind to the tragic and a…"

"We should be less concerned about the missile gap than the intelligence gap... less worried about the missile race than the intelligence race."