Every mob, in its ignorance ...

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
 Max Lerner

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In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
 Max Lerner
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
 Max Lerner
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
 Max Lerner
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
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
 Max Lerner